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Essay / Dystopia in Orwell's 1984:...
Joeseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler). His novel takes place in England, a free country. In the novel he uses the name Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy of Oceania, which is also common in Jewish culture, symbolizing how many communists and states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were anti-Semitic (" Analysis "). Many believe the novel was "a satirical Swiftian warning of what might happen if power were sought for its own sake" (Crick), expressing Orwell's deep passion against English imperialism. This showed how a free state like the United States and England could convert into a totalitarian state like other nations around them. Orwell was a very patriotic author who was one of the inspirations for writing the dystopian novel. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he immediately applied to be admitted into the armed service, convinced: "now we are in this bloody war, we must win it and I would like to lend a hand" (George