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EVOLUTION OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

W. Scott Lucas

SOURCE: Lucas, W. Scott. “An Analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four.” In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 129, edited by Scott Darga and Linda Pavlovski. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group, 2003.

[In the following original essay, Lucas examines Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on a number of levels, assessing the plot, characters, themes, evolution of the work, the novel's historical significance, and how the work has been studied since its publication.]

EVOLUTION OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

THE HISTORY OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

In 1943 George Orwell outlined a novel titled “The Last Man in Europe.” It is possible that this was being sketched as part of a trilogy. As early as 1940, Orwell was writing friends of “incubating an enormous novel, the family saga sort of thing.” “Last Man” could have been the culmination of...

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1. Introduction
2. Evolution Of Nineteen Eighty-Four
3. On Nineteen Eighty-Four
4. Themes
5. Critical Summary
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four In History
7. Adaptations
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four As Studied
9. Further Reading
10. Copyright

1. George Orwell