Blair (George Orwell) to his far-reaching, novel, and distressing prediction: humanity was inexorably heading-without realizing it-toward a totalitarian system, where the individual freedom of each person would be forever subjected to the all-embracing will of a single individual. Experiences from the Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union in 1917, Fascist Italy in 1922, and Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 showed Orwell a glimpse of a new world order.Īll of those revolutionary experiences, whether you were in favor or against each of the regimes, served as inspiration for Eric A. In that context, George Orwell understood for the first time the new social paradigm that was emerging before his eyes. ” It portrays a society opposite to the one previously titled Utopia (“no place” in Greek) in 1516 by his fellow countryman, Thomas More.ĭuring that period, and for the second time in the twentieth century, a global war (1939-1945) between the most powerful nations occurred. In 1949, a restless English journalist named Eric Arthur Blair published a shocking dystopian fiction novel titled 1984 under the pseudonym “George Orwell.
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