1984 #5

Orwell wrote this novel in 1949 and although he may have not known how accurate the novel could be to reality, it was very close. Within a few years a lot can change. By looking at the past of the United States, we can see that. We went from being part of a colony to Great Britain to our own country in just a few years. Revolts can be common which is why Oceania's government wanted to stop the revolt before it could happen.

Orwell was accurate to a point in his vision of the future of society. The government does not tell us the complete truth until it is absolutely necessary. Even then, we may not receive the full truth. The words and stories that we hear on the radio, watch on the television, or read in the papers is all picked and revised just like the information that was able to the mass of people in Oceania.  In today's media things are often taken out of context, especially words of celebrities. Both todays society and the society that was created in the novel hide the truth and facts that should be allowed to be viewed to the common people. Both of these societies also have a group in charge. This group does not contain the mass of the people in society, it actually only contains a small percentage of the population.

In most cases, Orwell did have a vision that was able to come true, but one vision that did not come true was the idea that the language of people would shrink. Our dictionary has actually expanded. We may not use all the words that we once did and some may have even been taken out of the dictionary, but every year, new words are being added to our dictionary. Orwell also tried to say that people would eventually forget that they had known about the past. This does not seem true either because we are taught about the past every day in school and have access to different opinions of the past by using the internet.

A vision that everyone can be in unison by thinking, dressing, and acting the same way is questionable about whether it can happen or not. In order for this to happen, people have to lose their faith, and their beliefs. Not everyone has the same belief as one another which is why there are different religions and cultures in the world. It does not seem possible for everyone to believe in the same thing like Orwell thought could happen, but he may have had a point when he said that the government was hiding the past from the people. We may not think the government is hiding the past from us, but how do we know? We don't have any way of knowing which makes it a possibility that this part of Orwell's vision could have already came to be reality.