“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
The novel 1984 is the much-celebrated British writer George Orwell’s ninth and final book. Written in 1949, it is a classic dystopian novel set in an imagined future, 1984, that has been ravaged by war and revolution. Civilisation, as was known earlier, is destroyed, and there is now a state of perpetual war under an authoritarian government. Since It's publication, this well-acclaimed political and social science fiction has resonated with people opposing totalitarian governments. Many of the ideas and terms used in the novel have entered common usage and have had a huge cultural impact on people’s expressions of dissent or observation of government overreach and political manipulation.