The ordinary world for the main character Winston is one that to us wouldn't seem very ordinary, although it is still set on our planet. Winston's world is in what was supposed to be the future (1984 was in the future when this book was written). The world in which Winston lives isn't very nice compared to ours. In the "future" the whole world is run by "the Party" which governs in similar ways to a dictatorship. Almost everything in this world is in bad or unsanitary conditions, people don't have very many things(including food), and people will be killed if they are bad. Basically the world of 1984 where Winston lives is not a very fun place. The citizens, a lot of which are poor, are only allowed very small rations of food and other resources. To make it worse the food they are allowed is generally quite bad and gross. Unlike in much of our modern world criminals will be hung in front of crowds as punishment for small crimes, and some people that do and say things that the Party doesn't like disappear and no one knows what happens to them. Life is rough in this world and the Party makes really wants to keep it this way by having everyone on camera at all times to keep people in line. I bet you might be wondering how the world we know of today could have became such a mess. According to 1984 there was a big revolution that took place before Winston was even born where the party took over and the world turned into the mess that the book is set in. It's kind of scary to think that many parts of the world are as bad or worse as the world of 1984.
"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became true."
From George Orwell's 1984, this quote is talking about how the Party has erased what once was and made citizens believe that the current world in 1984 was better.
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Sauron's eye from the lord of the rings is always watching just like the Party
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