Title: Top 10 Facts About George Orwell's 1984
Headings: Top 10 Facts About George Orwell’s 1984
Top 10 Facts About George Orwell’s 1984
Top 10 Facts about George Orwell’s Novel 1984
10. Orwell Understood The Seductive Nature Of And The Ultimate Consequences Of The Use Of Power
9. While A Committed Socialist Orwell Understood The Fickle Nature Of Totalitarianism
8. 1984 Is Orwell’s Attempt To Rationalize His Belief That Change Is Inevitable. It Was A Prediction For A Possible Future Rather Than One Set In Stone, Some Of The Predictions Are Incredibly Accurate
7. 1984 Is One Of The World’s Most Universally Acclaimed Novels And Is Loved And Hated In Equal Measure
6. 1984 Draws Heavily On The Influence Of Other Dystopian Fiction
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Content: Orwell was one of the first British socialists to try to combat this perception. His two great novels 1984 and Animal Farm were written in part to address this problem and warn people that they had to be wary of all extreme totalitarian systems. Orwell firmly believed that the British political system could not survive the war, he was convinced it would go; the only question being whether through a top down fascist coup or a bottom up socialist revolution. He later admitted that war and revolution are not inseparable and one does not automatically lead to the other. In 1984 Orwell attempts to explore what can happen when socialist ideals are perverted and how change and totalitarianism could combine to give rise to a possible nightmare future where the original aims of the revolution are betrayed by those who perpetuate its existence. The post war carve up of spheres of influence and the cold war (a phrase coined by Orwell in a 1945 essay) swayed Orwell’s division of the world in 1984 into three separate spheres of control (analogous to real life superpowers Russia and the US and, to some extent predicting the rise of China) engaged in a perpetual war of changing allegiances. 1984 even anticipated the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) balance that kept the real life Cold War cold and ensured that atomic weapons were never launched. In the novel the superpowers had made liberal use of atomic weapons in the past but agreed to suspend their use as it might lead to the ascendency of one of the three powers. They all need the state of constant war to maintain power and drive their imbalanced economies.