1984 fifty years on – in what respects has the fictitious future vision of George Orwell “come true”?

George Orwell wrote his famous tonic 19 Eighty-Four amidst the years 1945 and 1948. Although the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four, the sweet wasnt meant to be a fine description of the exact year of 1984 but a critical, futuristic novel. In Orwells criticism of a perfect society, his novel became known as iodin of the greatest anti-utopian novels of all time. Although the novel starts out as a chronicle of a neurotic man, it quickly makes into a protest against a undemocratic government. The novel seems to be a satire at the start, similar to novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, but quickly the subscriber will discover that it is not wholly satire. Nineteen Eighty-Four is not unaccompanied criticism of what Orwell saw happening in his country with the approaching of English Socialism, but a warning of the consequences of contemporary government actions and what they were operose to cause. perchance the novel seems so bleak because it was written in the conditions and surr ound in which Orwell lived in 1948, straight after the Second World War. Perhaps people would be more comfortable with the novel if they could forget the cerebration of the possibility of the prediction becoming real. In year 1984 it seemed to be a huge tr prohibit to discuss which aspects of the novel had follow authentic, although the title of the novel was only acquired by switching the last two numbers of the print year the other way round.The most obvious feature in the novel that existed -and still exists for example in Cuba is the undemocratic government. Although Stalins Soviet conjunction and Hitlers Nazi Germany obviously gave the model for Oceania, Orwell and no- one and only(a) else in the end of the 1940s knew what simply was happening inside these states. For example the truth of Stalins government came up only after 1952 when the head of the country died. KGB could be linked to the Thought legal philosophy in the sense of vaporising people who were against the leader mysteriously during the night. In this sense, Orwell taken in his novel quite well the secret actions inside the totalitarian government.Also Orwells view of television seems to impart partly come true. The television was a quite new invention in the end of the 1940s when Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and therefore Orwell developed the idea of an unswitchable TV, telescreen, for his novel. Although the recent TVs can be switched off and the Party members cant observe us through with(predicate) them, Orwell wouldnt probably have been surprised by the fact that in 1984 the median(a) American househ centenarian spent over 7 hours in bet of the television every evening. The number is even greater for those families who happen to have a cable TV.As Winston in the beginning of the novel is a middle-aged man living alone, and working only because everyone has to, his position resembles the one of a modern, marginalised man. He cant remember his childhood or even his po se clearly. It is possible to see here one Orwells insight more, even though it is quite unlikely that he actually predicted in 1948 that marginalisation would dumbfound a problem fifty years later.The theme of Newspeak and the destruction of quarrel was also one aspect of the future that George Orwell saw in advance. Although the governments of like a shot are not trying to eliminate more and more vocalises from our vocabularies in order to eliminate our ability to unite or beseech against them, the language is changing. Words that sound as if they were the purest Newspeak already exist, for example the word infomercial (information + commercial) could be straight form Oceania. Also new words come to existence at the same time when old words most disappear. The disappearing, or forgotten words are usually names of old objects that are not used anymore. New technology in turn brings new products that need new names.No other work of the twentieth century has inspired people wi th such love of liberty and crime of tyranny. Because of the many predictions of the future that Orwell made over fifty years past and which later on have actually come true, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains one of the great novels of the previous century.