When Does “1984” (1949) Take Place?
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" (sometimes released as “1984”) is a political science fiction novel written by George Orwell a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair and released June 8th, 1949.
It takes place roughly in the year:
We think we know this because the government tells everyone it is 1984 AD but, over the course of the novel, evidence increasingly mounts up telling the characters that they cannot trust their government. As the proper trust in society is lost so is a proper sense of time and the characters conclude they do not know what year it is.
~1984 AD
We think we know this because the government tells everyone it is 1984 AD but, over the course of the novel, evidence increasingly mounts up telling the characters that they cannot trust their government. As the proper trust in society is lost so is a proper sense of time and the characters conclude they do not know what year it is.
It was adapted to television in 1953, again in 1954, to film in 1956, again to television in 1965, then to film again in 1984, to comics in 2012, to the stage in 2013.
