Lisa Mullen

David Dwan, a Professor of English Literature at Oxford, Lisa Mullen from Cambridge, and John Bowen from York dive deep into George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. They discuss the suffocating concepts of doublespeak and thoughtcrime, exploring how personal experiences influenced Orwell’s critique of totalitarianism. The conversation reveals Winston Smith's psychological turmoil and his desperate yearning for freedom. They also critique the proletariat's perceived apathy and examine the modern implications of Orwell's warnings about surveillance and language manipulation.