Monday, January 11, 2010

Setting

How essential is the setting to the story? Could the story have taken place anywhere else? In any other time?

2 comments:

The Kings said...

It probably could have been written in another time in history but I think the setting was good and the current time in our history something that could be useful for someone (Orwell) trying to catch our attention now.

Seth and Julie said...

I think 1984 was maybe chosen because it was within Orwell's sight. He used parts of history that had still existed in his time and based on tendencies he was seeing in the government, predicted where we were headed. He had to maintain some parts of the world he knew. Things he was afraid would become extinct.