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 time. The book's message is so powerful that some

say it went so far as to prevent the sinister future from realizing itself.



Although the book starts out as the story of a neurotic, paranoid man, it quickly turns into a protest

against a quasi-utopian society and a totalitarian government. The book appears to be a satire at the start,

similar to books such as "Gulliver's Travels", or Huxley's "Brave New World", but all too quickly the reader

will "discover, quite unpleasantly, that it is not a satire at all." Nineteen Eighty-four is not simply a criticism

of what Orwell saw happening in his national government with the coming of English Socialism, but a

warning of the consequences of......

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Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction Of The Future
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