Pessimism Perhaps?

George Orwell wrote the book 1984 in the year 1949-which means he was predicting what would happen 35 years from his time. The overall tone of Oceania seems dull, isolated, and trapped. Orwell obviously had doubts about the intelligence of humans. For example when Winston was writing in his journal his thoughts were not concise, his grammar was incredibly demeaning, and his sentence structure was like that of an elementary student's. Orwell creates the character Winston because he represents the part of population that goes against the rulers (government today). Everything in this book so far seems to be not that far from what could happen in the near future; maybe not so exaggerated as the book depicts, but these events/ideas could surely exist.