Nutshell Summary

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, presents a highly structured and restrictive society in which war, oppression, and surveillance are common- place. The world is uncomfortable and ambiguous in its truth, run by a dominating totalitarian regime. This is established largely due to Orwell’s socio-historical context, with many aggressive regimes around the world. Orwell’s aim as an author was to satirise his perceived reality and demonstrate a confronting but im- minent reality. However, this universe is divided into three political super-states who are constantly at war: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia.