Synopsis The year 1984 has come and gone but George Orwell's predictive imaginary vision in 1949 of the world was timeless and still relevant to the contemporary world. The novel, 1984 is a great modern classic of "negative utopia"- an alarming original and haunting novel which creates an imaginary world that is absolutely and realistic. Everyone can accept the novel's grip on the imaginations of entire generations, or the power of its predictions with the passage of time.