Fractions and decimals appear everywhere in construction and design-related problems. Whenever one quantity is broken down into a number of smaller quantities (e.g. a wall width divided into three equally-long sub-widths), the resulting smaller quantities represent fractions of the original.
Animal Farm takes place on a farm in England, previously called Manor Farm, though when the animals take it over, they rename it Animal Farm. The farm seems mythical in its otherworldliness and acts as a metaphor for a period of political upheaval in Russia.
Eventually, Secker and Warburg published the first edition in 1945.
The book was written as a warning of what could happen if people allowed their governments to obtain too much power after Orwell saw what happened to the people in Germany. The book also demonstrates the ability of governments to alter reality and manipulate facts to suit their narrative.
One possible reason for why Orwell chose the title 1984 is that he simply reversed the numbers of the year in which he wrote the book - 1948. At the time of publication, Orwell's American publisher made this claim, but it has since been called into question.
Product information ASIN‎0451524934 Publisher ‎Signet Classic (January 1, 1961) Language ‎English Mass Market Paperback ‎328 pages ISBN-10 ‎97804515249359 more rows
Orwell initially named the novel 1980, and then 1982 before settling on 1984. Since it was written in 1948, some think that Orwell devised the title by inverting the year the book was written. Additionally, he thought about naming the novel The Last Man in Europe.
George Orwell's vision of a dystopian world is most disturbing not because of its absurdity but because of the parallels it draws with our own society.
1984 is a book about an extremely oppressive government that twists words around to make lies seem like truth and truth seem like lies. So "literally 1984" means "this is an awful society acting just like that book predicted."