1984

Content Ratings

Moderate Romance

Winston and Julia engage in a sexual relationship as an act of political rebellion; their encounters are described with moderate detail involving physical passion, though explicit acts are not depicted graphically.

Intense Themes

Sustained themes of totalitarian thought control, state-sanctioned torture and psychological breakdown, the systematic destruction of personal identity, language manipulation, and the erasure of historical truth.

Moderate Violence

The novel includes torture during extended interrogation sequences, physical beatings, psychological abuse, and the threat of brutal punishment; the torture scenes are emotionally and psychologically intense, particularly toward the end.

Synopsis

In a totalitarian future society under the omnipresent surveillance of Big Brother, low-ranking Party member Winston Smith secretly rebels by keeping a diary and pursuing a forbidden love affair. As his quiet acts of resistance grow bolder, the terrifying power of the state closes in on him. A landmark dystopian novel exploring the mechanics of psychological control, propaganda, and the erasure of truth.