| I have chosen Orwell and his most notable work 1984 as the topic of a research paper. It's aim is to uncover the truth about the revolutionariness of Orwell's opinions. Was there already talk of all the things which he predicted in the 1940's? Were feelings of dread toward utopian governments and the future they held prevalent, or was this unique to Orwell?
I've tried searching for some answers to these questions on-line, yet I've found nothing. Everything puts Orwell up on a pedestal as the sole origin of the anti-utopian views seen in 1984.
Has anyone here read otherwise? Was he really the only person who foresaw the effects of totalitarianism? |