Literature reflects the preconceptions, conceptions, and misperceptions of its time, its authors, and its readers. The inextricable relationship between literature and society reflects the continual clash of beliefs, values and worldviews inherent in human society. George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel, 1984, was written as a reflection of the oppressive governments that surrounded him at the time. The society in 1984, although fictional, mirrors the tyrannic environments of Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s reigns over Germany and the Soviet Union, where there was little, if any, freedom and where hunger, forced labour, and mass executions were common place. Orwell also demonstrates the psychological, technological, physical, and social dangers
