When a counterforce develops (the "Free British Army"), it turns out merely to be an Arab bid for total takeover. Disgusted, enraged, he vows to quit the factory union he's blackballed, put out of work, soon arrested, and eventually institutionalized. Bev Jones, a former history professor turned candy-factor worker, loses his wife in a hospital fire that striking firemen (and back-up Army troops) refuse to fight.
1985 London is an almost totally Arab-financed city ("They owned Al-Dorchester, Al-Klaridge's, Al-Browns, various Al-Hiltons and Al-Idayinns") yet is continually plagued by general strikes at the hands of unions gone wild with power: "holistic syndicalism." Learning is passe juvenile delinquents learn classical Greek as a gesture of defiance against society. An interesting notion that might stir some controversy. The essay? 1984 is "basically a comic transcription of the London of the end of World War Two"-Orwell's rather nostalgic English-cozy socialism coming face to face with (and affronted by) the vulgarity of the working classes. An essay on Orwell's novel 1984 then Burgess' own stab-in the form of a novella-at adjusting the prophecy in Orwell's book to more likely scenarios.
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