As
its title suggests, 's is set in the year 1984, although it is published
in the year 1949. This is significant becausewants to imply that the events of the novel take
place in the not-so-distant and potentially realizable future. In other words, the novel is
meant as a warning to the Western world about what could happen should they allow governments
more and more power, particularly as it relates to language.
The primary
setting of the novel is Oceania, a dystopian version of England. Oceania is a totalitarian
state, meaning that it is run entirely by a shadowy government which tyrannically enforces its
will. Although England was nothing like Oceania in 1949, Orwell feared that they were heading in
that direction, particularly because of harsh censorship. Orwell believed that language should
always be free from government rule.
In 1984 , however,
Orwell portrays a society in which languageand thus realityis completely dictated to the people
by their...
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