from now, in the year 2035, one can only imagine what changes will have taken place in

society. Thirty-five years ago, in 1949, George Orwell’s vision of the world as it would

be in 1984 was horrific. Orwell describes his vision in his book Nineteen Eighty-four.

“Nineteen Eighty-four depicts the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime of

whatever type with great power and skill and force of imagination.”

The definition of totalitarianism is a system of government in which one political

party aims at total control over the lives of people, as by employing a powerful secret

police, restricting meetings and assemblies, and censoring publications. Orwell’s Nineteen

Eighty-four portrays a well-established totalitarian regime even from the beginning of the

book. “The thing that he[Winston] was about to do was to open a diary. This was not

microphones for them to talk. The party controlled their lives.

before the revolution. Winston Smith was an immense enemy of the party. “His[Winston]

totalitarianism regime. Nineteen Eighty-four is a clever, keen story that has much

party. Man will also have little or no freedom to carry out normal activities as he did

people are being controlled by their governments. Not necessarily by totalitarianism, but

read his book before 1984 ponder the future. Some people who read his book before

Eighty-four depicts keenness in such a way that not many other books do. Nineteen

experience...overwhelming in its keenness and prophetic power.” Orwell’s Nineteen

TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE.(228)” Winston did this only because it was the wishes

Furthermore, another critic, Alfred Kasin, describes the book as “an extraordinary

even happened. A government should not be allowed to control the thoughts of its

into the fate of man under totalitarianism, or his compa

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