![]() Indeed, we might go so far as to say that most dystopian novels, whilst nominally set in an imagined future, are really using their future setting to reflect on what are already firmly established social or political ideas. They are not mere speculation, but are grounded in the circumstances in which they were written. However, books set in the future are rarely simply about the future. The novel is often analysed as a warning about the dangers of allowing a creeping totalitarianism into Britain, after the horrors of such regimes in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and elsewhere had been witnessed.īecause of this quality of the book, it is often called ‘prophetic’ and a ‘nightmare vision of the future’, among other things. Nineteen Eighty-Four is probably the most famous novel about totalitarianism, and about the dangers of allowing a one-party state where democracy, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, and even freedom of thought are all outlawed. ![]()
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