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Analysis Of 1984 By George Orwell

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Bennett Curran
Ms. Melnychenko

English 1-F
12 October 17
Could George Orwell Predict the Future?
John Green once said, “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” Throughout George Orwell’s bone chilling novel, 1984, he uses hefty imagery to show the cruelness of the society they live in. While the book was intended to be guess on the future, Orwell made a pretty accurate prediction. As expected, the book shot way over what is happening today, but there are a few aspects that stick out. Throughout the book, the reader is put in the situation where they don’t know what is real or fake. However, if all humans were to read the novel, the struggles that the protagonist faces might be able to be stopped before they become a problem. George Orwell makes a variety references that relate to the world today from technology to government, thus, making the book have similar and afflicting views to the society known today.
To begin, Orwell’s futuristic society is in a way like the one known today. In the book, he states, “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality,

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