The Prediction of 1984 The anti-utopian book, “1984”, is Orwell , the author’s warning to generations to come of what could befall them in a totalitarian society. In the words of critic William Sosk “ George Orwell’s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly and so dramatically from our own date to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood chilling one...”1 The book is indeed “a blood chilling” one that reminds citizens of a democracy how important their freedoms and rights are. 1984, which is split into three sections, deals with how rebellion is achieved and taken away in