2006-10-03 06:04:11 · 8 answers · asked by St.Anger 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It was meant as a warning of what COULD be, not as a prophesy of what WOULD be. Nonetheless, it would serve many youths and many voters to read it along with "Animal Farm." It might serve as a wake up call to many in today's society. The parallels are there... but so very few are capable of seeing things for what they are.
Some might argue that the super rich and powerful made "1984" a reality long before 1984... Hoover's FBI spying on American citizens, McCarthyism, wire-tapping by the government, use of SS numbers to keep tabs on us, the banks use of computers to keep track of us, our spending habits and credit card usage, hidden camera surveillance practices in clothes stores, department stores, malls, offices, streets, miniature listening devices,... CIA and FBI poisoning of Pedro Albizu-Campos and other Puerto Rican patriots, CIA helping Caribbean/South & Central America dictators get into power... etc., BEFORE the year 1984! Today, it's more prevalent than ever and it is eroding away at our guaranteed Constitutional freedoms, liberties and rights under the guise of the Patriot Act and the supposed (fabricated?) fear of terrorism.
2006-10-03 06:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
obviously not prophetic 'cos it didn't happen by 1984. Yet worrying when you see the erosion of civil liberties taking place nowadays.
Great novel? No, but very good.
2006-10-03 06:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by andigee2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to thing 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 were just good novels. Now I get chills when I read them.
2006-10-03 06:06:35 · answer #3 · answered by toff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simply put, a great novel, George Orwell had a wonderful talent for seeing what he thought might happen in the future ( A talent shown in some of his other works also...), he was simply an intelligent person that got nowhere near as much credit in life as he should have got.......
2006-10-03 06:17:28 · answer #4 · answered by Mintjulip 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A great novel and perhaps prophetic. If not that, then an alternate future.
2006-10-03 06:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Elven 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Both.
2006-10-03 06:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by dognhorsemom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a little from column A, a little from column B...
2006-10-03 07:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by velvetpattidoll 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
both
2006-10-03 06:47:32 · answer #8 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋