1984
Orwell's dystopian novel depicts totalitarian society where Big Brother watches everything and the Party controls reality itself. Through Winston Smith's doomed rebellion, it explores surveillance, propaganda, language manipulation, and the individual's destruction under totalitarianism. The work's concepts—doublethink, thoughtcrime, Room 101—entered common language as warnings.
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