1984 – George Orwell
Essay title: 1984 – George Orwell
George Orwell, formally Eric Blair, will have gone on to write one of the most powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society, 1984. Orwells most famous book and perhaps one of the most important and dark political satires ever written is parodying many different institutions that existed all around the world in 1949 when he wrote the book. George Orwells 1984 is a political allegory attacking totalitarianism.
Orwell witnessed the danger of absolute political authority first hand in an age of advanced technology, in Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union. He illustrated that danger harshly in 1984, when he wrote the book in 1949, at the dawn of the nuclear age and before the television had become a fixture in the family home. Orwell’s vision of a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitor interminably by means of the telescreen seemed terrifying, yet possible. Further fear was instilled at the thought that Orwell postulated such a society a mere thirty-five years into the future.
However the world that had been radically instilled fear into, that Orwell envisioned