Looking at 1984, you can see that George Orwell included the themes of power, modernization and control because the government uses technology to its advantage to control its people. 1984 became one of the highest-rated books of all time and was an international top seller. Scaring a lot of people away from communism, this was perfect at this time due to the red scare going on around the same time. Orwell could not have expressed the use of technology and the power of government in a better way than he did