George Orwell 1984 Research Paper

George Orwell made some extremely perplexing visions of how the future would turn out to be when he wrote 1984. He was writing about the future, and in the book, there was a totalitarian government run by the Party that controlled everything. He was for the most part accurate in his ideas of the future. Some of his ideas correspond with the events taking place in modern times, such as his idea that the future would have a government that spies on its citizens, and his idea that there will be great wars in the future.

Orwell’s vision of the future has some aspects of it that’s have come true. For example, in 1984, it says “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen”(Orwell 44). This relates to

In the present-day world, people get spied on by the government using electronic devices. Orwell also demonstrates the government spying on people when he says “Big Brother is Watching you”(Orwell 3). This relates to current times because in 1984, Big Brother is the one in charge and he spies on the citizens. In modern times, the people in the upper government spy on residents and people of the lower government. So The Party spies on people in 1984 and the government spies on people today, there is a strong connection between today and Orwell’s vision of the future.

War is a major example of an event in 1984 that has come true today. For instance, in 1984, it says “Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war”(Orwell 25). This reveals