What is 1984? A brief answer is needed

was written in 1948.   simply switched the last two numbers of
the decade to connote the future.  The book, really, is not meant to be futuristic: he did not
realistically expect the world be this much of a dystopia.  Rather, the novel is aof two types
of government: the extreme liberal (Stalin's Communism) and extreme conservative (Hitler's
Nazism).  The theme of the work is focused on pain and torture (which Eric Blair
"Orwell" saw firsthand): the state's destruction of the individual.

The novel is Juvenalian Satire: it is an attack on these...