Introduction George Orwell lived in England during World War Two, when England had been at war with the totalitarian state, Nazi Germany. He was there when London was blanket bombed and left in rubble by the Germans. Like many writers he decided to make a statement with his work, and did. George Orwell’s novel 1984 was written as a political statement of against totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a form of government that tries to assert total …showed first 75 words of 1337 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1337 total…a way of people to stop having sex. As you can see Orwell painted a bleak and disturbing picture of a totalitarian government. He purposly makes the story unrealistic and blown out of proportion to get peoples attention and to make them think maybe it wouldn’t be unrealistic in the future. He thought that the unstable European economy following WWII might possibly give rise to such a government and wanted to forewarn the public.