The influence of society on 1984 and George Orwell"Saying 'I accept' in an age like ours means saying that you accept concentration camps, truncheons rubber, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, airplanes, canned food, machine guns, coups, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murders" (Library I). The politics, society, economy and war of the 1940s had a direct impact on life at the time. A good example of this influence was the writing of Eric Arthur Blair, whose pen name was George Orwell (Bookshelf II). George Orwell's 1984 is written from a third-person perspective, in this case a selective omniscient, focusing primarily on character. by Winston Smith. The story was written in 1949 - the same year Silly Putty was invented (Bookshelf III) - and was a prediction of the future world (as Orwell saw it). The story begins in Winston's residence, where he begins to write a diary. However, he does not know whether the year is 1984. It must have been "about that date, for he was quite sure that he was thirty-nine and believed himself to have been born in 1944 or 1945" (Orwell 10). He works for the Ministry of Truth, in the Archive. The job of the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue-in Newspeak; the native language of Oceania, where Winston lived) was to deal with the news, entertainment, fine arts, and education of Oceania (Orwell 7-8) . The society he lives in is a totalitarian society and he works for the government, along with most people in society. He has negative thoughts about the government system he lives in and begins to get curious if there is a way to overcome this... middle of paper ......V-Quotations1: Jeannette Rankin (1880 -1973), US suffragist, politician. Cited in: Hannah Josephson, Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress, ch. 8 (1974).*Bookshelf '95-Copyright (from books cited on CD)1-The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed by Columbia University Press. Copyright (c) 1993 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved2-The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright (c) 1995 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.3-The Popular Chronology is licensed from Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1994 by James Trager. All rights reserved.Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1949. Ross, William T. “Pacifism versus Patriotism: The Case of George Orwell.” Weber Studies. Ogden, Utah: Weber State University, Spring 1995