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A Comparison Between the Three Dark Visions "The Second Coming" by Yeats, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell"
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... A Comparison Between the Three Dark Visions "The Second Coming" by Yeats, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell "The Second Coming" by Yeats, The Waste Land by Eliot and Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell are three texts representing visions of dark times which are vividly portrayed by the authors. I will discuss the texts from this standpoint mainly focusing on the themes of dystopia and apocalypse which are present throughout the texts. I will also discuss to what extent hopes and dreams are present in each visions. George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949 during the aftermaths of the Second World War. The novel is a master-piece of political criticism against totalitarianism and the various dictatorships present at the time. Orwell's novel depicts a miserable futuristic society which becomes more and more reminiscent of our own world with the passing of time. It is a














