George Orwell’s Purpose for Writing 1984 Imagine a future where one would not only have to be wary of what they say or do but what they think as well. George Orwell’s book, 1984, serves as a warning to the people of the Red Scare, Nazi Germany, and pretty much the whole world. Through 1984, it is constantly shown that the government has too much power which is why the lives of its citizens are they way they are, full of fear. Orwell’s purpose is to warn his readers of the dangers of letting a small group of people hold too much power. Without having to blatantly tell his readers that the government of Oceania holds too much power, the reader learns the immensity of power that the Party holds over its citizens as “[they] had to live—did live,
