《一九八四》在这部作品中，奥维尔深刻分析了极权主义社会，并且刻画了一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的未来社会，通过对这个社会中一个普通人生活的细致刻画，投射出了现实生活中极权主义的本质。

The story is written by George Orwell, who also wrote about Animal Farm, another story in which two parties fought against one another. Some resemblance between the two stories is that that they are both about revolution. And both times the revolutions didn’t work. Yet there are also many contracting points too, for even though they are about revolution, 1984 is only about two people against one Party, trying to work their way into the party that was against the other party against the first, whereas Animal Farm is about two entire parties. Another difference is that in Animal Farm the revolution is like a circle, after the animals pushed the humans away, the pigs came and took the position same as the humans, so it half worked, but in 1984 the revolution failed completely. I don’t like 1984 as well as I liked Animal Farm, for 1984 tells more of the cruelty of human nature, and I didn’t exactly want to know that all the huge lumpy stuff all around me have ugly stuff in their hearts (ok, I admit I have it too). I don’t exactly like stories having horrible endings where both the main characters betray each other and have their minds altered into something they never wanted. Not that I’m asking to be altered too, but still it’s unnerving. Anyways in Animal Farm it just was about a party doing this doing that and being tricked by officers, like in real life.