I have a theory that Winston is an unreliable/uninformed narrator about the rest of the world, and it’s just the Anglosphere that sucks while the countries in the two big communist economic blocks are all doing fine.
I think that was the point, the book challenges the idea that there even is a war going on multiple times. But whether there is a war going on, or not, is ultimately irrelevant to the context of the book.
All of Europe except Ireland, England, and Iceland are communist and in the Soviet sphere of influence in 1984.
This is in the literal first few pages of the book. These chuds have never read 1984.
I have a theory that Winston is an unreliable/uninformed narrator about the rest of the world, and it’s just the Anglosphere that sucks while the countries in the two big communist economic blocks are all doing fine.
I think that was the point, the book challenges the idea that there even is a war going on multiple times. But whether there is a war going on, or not, is ultimately irrelevant to the context of the book.
Of course not. Libs don’t read, ever. Not even Harry Potter. If it can’t be condensed to a 90 minute good vs bad movie then why bother?
“I wondered how many people who talked about the novel so glibly had ever read it; or if they had, whether they remembered it at all.” - Issac Asimov
Wait, what happened to Scotland ?
My bad, should have just said British Isles. I was lumping Wales, England, and Scotland together.
Scotland is also occupied by the 1984 version of NATO.