This paper analyzes how George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four", written in an era after only thirty-five years in which
there had been two world wars, a communist
revolution, a host of fascist dictators and a frenzy of slaughter, imagines a world yet darker than that which already existed, a world in which the voice of authority had triumphed absolutely and in which individual human needs and desires were no more. It shows, through analysis of the novel, how Orwell may not have been entirely accurate in the way he pictured the world in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" even though he was amazingly prescient in foreseeing many of the problems that would arise in future years. He understood that the evil actions of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco had inspired in the West a response that was in many ways no less deplorable and it was the collapse of the traditional ethical and social framework of the West that had first brought both
communism and fascism into being.