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I don’t believe anyone alive would definitely know the answer to this question, but I can share some options: 1.) George Orwell didn’t think private cars would
by hluska 4y ago
I don’t believe anyone alive would definitely know the answer to this question, but I can share some options:
1.) George Orwell didn’t think private cars would catch on in any significant way. He did write this in the 1940s so that’s a possibility.
2.) He wanted to convey that the government controlled everything, even transportation.
3.) The government wants to control attention so they can broadcast propaganda (and expect rapt attention) at will.
4.) George Orwell wrote scenes with cars, they were poorly written and didn’t make an edited manuscript.
- version_five 4y agoThere is a specific passage in the book where he says a person looking forward from the early 20th century would have expected to own a car (and instead they get the Airstrip One of 1984). So I don't think 1 is correct
- idontwantthis 4y agoIt sounds pretty clear to me that characters don’t have cars because in the state controlled world of the book everyone is poor just like in a Communist country today or during the Cold War.