"I don't believe that the kind of society I describe will arrive, but I believe something resembling it could arrive," explained Orwell on the topic of 1984 (Lewis 124). In his chilling novel, Orwell attempted to warn the world about totalitarianism governments or governments in which the state has absolute control over almost every aspect of the peoples' lives. Orwell describes his intent in his own words, "Totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences," (Lewis 128). Orwell wrote 1984 unlike a utopian novel, in which the author aims to portray the perfect human society, instead negative utopian novels do exactly the opposite: showing th
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