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Never heard of Orwell plagiarizing 1984... I'll have to dig deeper thanks for the info! And 100% brave new world was such an amazing read... it was my first novel in like a decade after reading popular science books and it seriously got me thinking.
Not sure if I'd call it plagiarizing, but he did heavily borrow from "We" by yevgeny zamyatin. Which he actually wrote a review of not long before starting with 1984. This Wikipedia section is an interesting read.
Definitely worth reading both and compare what Orwell copied and which original ideas he added.