Was Orwell s book 1984 correct in its prediction of the future?
I re-read this book last month and realized how accurate it was. Certainly not everything in the book has ‘come true’, but its insights, especially for the mid 1940s, astonished me. In terms of your first question, i think the book was a little bit of both – a comment on Orwell’s world that he experienced in the 1940s and a prediction of where things were heading. He certainly observed from his present day, but also predicted a bleak future if things continued. And i think his observations were more than critiques of communisum and fascism, but ‘democracies’ as well. For the second question, this is what scared me about the book the most. Specifically the second half, where he is reading the book put out by the ‘brotherhood’ and their observations about what war is. All of the rest was scary too (made me think the next time i turned on my tv) but i found the insights about war and what war was for particularly scary.
