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Essay / 1984 by George Orwell - 1237
1984 was written by a major contributor to anti-communist literature around World War II and is one of the greatest stories of an anti-utopian society of all time. 1984 was not written solely as an entertaining piece of literature or a dream about what the future could be, it was written as a warning about what could happen in the wake of communism and totalitarianism. This was not necessarily a very popular vision of the future at the time of publication, but it was certainly considered a possibility by many people. The popular view of the future, if analyzed from the point of view of a character in the book, sometimes changes depending on the character. The mass of the people, the proletarians, have a unique vision of what the future is. However, Winston and others who have had the same experience as him have a different vision of the future after leaving the Ministry of Love. There were many different visions of the future around the time 1984 was written. Some believed that the world's superpowers would conquer the world's weak nations and that democracy would rule everything. Some believed that the world would remain as it was in 1948, like many countries, and that somewhere in the future we would drive cars through the air and live on the moon. Others feared that communism, totalitarianism, and socialism would spread across the world and that everyone would suffer from these undesirable economic and political structures. It is on this basis that 1984 was written. George Orwell's idea of a totalitarian society is frighteningly realistic and could easily have been interpreted as a possibility of what the world might have looked like in 1984. In the 19th century, many different visions of the future entertained our company, were marketed and teased the minds of millions. Television shows such as The Jetsons and countless films like Star Wars, Logan's Run, Back to the Future and many others have greatly influenced the way we as a society perceive and have seen the future. The recurring ideas we seem to have are flying cars, robots that do our chores, faster modes of transportation; basically anything that will make our lives easier. One of the most obvious examples today is the remote control. By using the remote control, no one needs to get up to change the channel, which uses less energy and makes life even easier..