Orwell’s Dystopian Novel ‘1984’ Compared to Today
By T J Martin “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Winston Smith [main protagonist] is an anachronism, first entering the public consciousness in 1949 with the publication by George Orwell of his seminal work 1984.1 Poor, sad Winston embodied Orwell’s fictional glimpse into a dark dystopia, then