“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (post 8): Did Orwell really believe that the basis of his novel was totalitarianism and not multiple personality?

In a recent post, I questioned how well authors understand their characters, because their process of creating characters is partially a mystery to them.

But it is not just characters. Authors may not understand the basis of their whole novel. For example, George Orwell promoted a political/sociological interpretation of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. And most critics have accepted totalitarianism as what the novel is obviously about.

Yet if you search “Orwell” in this blog and read my posts, you will see that the novel is about multiple personality. Was Orwell unaware of this? I don’t know.

For example, was he unaware that his “Doublethink” is just a repackaged version of “double consciousness,” which had been a common synonym for multiple personality? Search “doublethink” and “double consciousness” in this blog.