In "Nineteen Eighty-Four, " Orwell creates a character named Syme who I find eerily similar to Luntz.

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For years the question of Orwell's intentions in Nineteen Eighty-Four has caused great debate.

BBC: 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia

Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).

BBC: 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia