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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by robocat on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:24PM (#20161219)
> because I thought it was about how love was the most important and powerful emotion

Except that she doesn't love him and she immediately and fully confesses everything and betrays him.

The book is about the political classes, while the majority of the population (the proles) are not discussed a lot, they seem to have simple lives and can love.

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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by godelski on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:25AM (#20161769)
You can have a story about love and love not triumph. I'd definitely say that that was a big element of the book. But I'd also include the class struggle and the so called dressing. Calling the setting a dressing seems a bit of an underplay. Settings are really important and generally also hold a message. But then again, I'm confused about why there's so much discussion about "I thought it was about" and not "this element is what struck me". Because 1984 is about ALL of those things.
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