Period 1
What a Wonderful World.
In 1948, a man by the name of George Orwell released a book which interpreted his views on what he thought the future would look like. The book was entitled, 1984. Orwell describes a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning. This anti-utopian world is filled with pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. Was Orwell a prophet, or just another man brought up in a world of evolving industry and war? "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?...”(book 1 chapter5). Newspeak in 1984 is a language that “Big Brother” uses to narrow an individual’s