To your first paragraph, we are not in disagreement. Parallels and influences found in particular plot points is not the same thing as the GP&#x27;s statement that <i>1984</i> was <i>based</i> on Stalin. It was not. Read Orwell&#x27;s letters.<p>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s written as a warning of how futile it will be to resist totalitarianism in a future advanced technological state.</i><p>You fundamentally misunderstand <i>1984</i> and Orwell himself. The notion of <i>the futility of resisting totalitarianism</i> never would have been uttered or thought by Orwell. He absolutely and tirelessly championed resisting totalitarianism. He wrote a great many words on the subject. He never warned anyone of the futility of resistance in his prior works, and he certainly didn&#x27;t push himself to death to deliver <i>1984</i> as such a warning. There is a vast difference between you, the reader, determining that Winston&#x27;s resistance is futile—particularly in the hindsight of O&#x27;Brien&#x27;s exposé at the end—and suggesting that Orwell was warning the reader that resistance is futile.