1984- A Reflection Of Ourselves
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In the novel 1984, the author George Orwell has created the ultimate
“anti-utopia”; a world in which there were no personal rights, poor living
conditions, and everything was controlled by hatred.
Despite the feelings of horror the reader may feel toward the
protagonists, Winston and Julia, they have to take a more in-depth look at the
novel, its meaning and the author Orwell himself, to truly understand it.
Orwell has created a satirical version of the society in which he wrote the
book- Post World War II Europe. Not only does Orwell satirize the new
order which came out of the second world war, he shows the reader, through
these similarities, that our own society is not far from the oppressive society
of 1984, and thus offers the reader a warning about what the future could hold
for us.
The...