Almost anyone who reads the first paragraphs of 1984 can tell that it is a satire, making fun of the corrupted society of 1949 (when it was written). George Orwell uses literature to create a world of totalitarian barbarism; he makes the horrible futuristic world harboring Big Brother, who controls every movement, as a warning to the people of his time. Before this “revolution,” the “capitalists owned everything in the world and everything else was their slave” (page 63). If George Orwell would have written his warning in plain English it would have said: We must stop the wealthy from taking all the power because if we do not control them now, they will take complete control over everyone and everything just like Big Brother. They will be able to control the past, present, and future, and they will watch what people do, force them to work for the cause, and brainwash them to think a certain way. George Orwell would have hated his self-created world in 1984, so he wanted to prevent it.
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