1984 | Social Concerns/Themes
As his final and perhaps most significant literary work, Nineteen Eighty-Four is often perceived as the inevitable culmination of Orwell's development as a writer and undoubtedly formulated as a creative entity over much of the last decade of his life. Consequently, the tone and thematic content of the novel suggest that Orwell was greatly influenced by the social and political events of the period. Stemming from his experience in Spain in 1936, Orwell witnessed a highly volatile world situation become increasingly more threatening to the existence of peace, liberty, and social...
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