Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
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rediction of the Future
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written between the years of 1945 and 1948. Orwell got the title from switching
the last two numbers of the publication date. In Orwell’s criticism of a perfect society, his book became
known as one of the greatest anti-utopian novels of all ti ....
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.... but a
warning of the consequences of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to
bring about.
Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from
current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more
comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a
reality.
In a critique of his own work, Orwell ca ....
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