Orwell's '1984' Was THE Most Depressing Book I've Ever Read!

It depends on how you look at the book as well.

Yes the book is depressing all round, both with the world and the people in it, but Orwell is a smart guy and he wrote it like that for a specific reason.

The reason is that he wanted everyone who read this to feel uncomfortable. He painted an extreme picture of a dystopian hellhole that we are headed towards right now, make no mistake.

Orwell felt that this topic was so important and knew that the only way to fight against all this misery is for people to see and be aware of it.

That’s why the book is so depressing and why there isn’t a happy ending for poor Winston.. because Orwell wanted you to feel so sick and angry and what is happening that you resist everything similar in real life.

In 1984 the game is over and the war for humanity is lost completely lost, just like the ending shows. We are not all lost yet and we still have a chance to avoid it.

I have great respect for Orwell and truly believe that if every person suffered through reading 1984, the world would not only move towards a better place, but we also have a chance of resisting this evil and preventing it from ever happening.

The book is for us to wake up and see the world for what it is and what it will become if we let it slide.

Sry for the wall but I’ve thought about this quite a bit since reading it.

Probably it’s depressing because it speaks of our todays reality … right??

Used to be listed under dystopian future, now relocated to current events

1984 is prescient but Brave New World better resonates with the present.

There is a similar storyline for a movie I use on occasion in my genetics classes, called GATTACA. It is to educate my students of ethics and civil responsibility in science.

It opened my eyes and really made me think about how I wanted to live my life. It also made me more aware of the world around me. I appreciate that it was required reading. As with most require books, they are meant to open our minds and make us comprehend ideas outside our bubble.

Ya, I think he was a freemason and its some predictive programming technique. They put out a plan to destroy us (masses) we “process” it, live it and relive it in our heads, our imagination and help them make it come true , co-create it with our power of thought. Same as TV 📺 right now and all the “ news” on it. The state ( same freemasons in government) are pushing it into kids heads through Department of Education curricula 🤷‍♀️

I was fortunate enough to live at the time that “Diamond Dogs” came out. I listened to the album by Bowie and then read the book. “We are the Dead” summarizes the lives of those living in the dystopian nightmare.
Men and Women were not allowed the passion of commitment to each other since that love belonged to Big Brother.
I am thankful that I didn’t confront the Novel in your context of depression but it sparked many of my imaginations of alternate realities.

1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm

These were written to prepare you for what is coming...and for what is already here.

For there is human learning within it, and this world promoting capitalism at the expense of people's life, no matter how we trample over, there is a value in empathy and conversation that maybe presents, this world doesn't need to be this way?

So we don't end up where we're heading now.

There is no happy ending, but the messages about love and the strength of human will are quite uplifting.

But I agree, no idea why this is considered an essential text for teenagers.

@Bellatrix2024 🤷‍♂️fair enough that is your oipinion and i respect that but this is probably one of the most famous books ever written and read

We are living 1984

It's not supposed to make you feel gUuD, kids are told to read it to educate them and give them perspective and to think critically of power. School is about educating, not giving you fluff to feel good about.