George Orwell
Body: was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Blair was born June 25,1903 in Motihari, India. He was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. Orwell hated totalitarianism and in 1936, joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was critical of Communism but basically considered himself a Socialist.
Later, the Communists would attempt to eliminate their allies on the far left. Orwell fought against them and was forced to flee Spain for his life. During the Second World War, Orwell wrote a weekly radio ...
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made the following comment in his book Notes on Nationalism, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear… Is it true about the gas ovens in Poland?" Orwell died at the early age of forty-seven of a neglected lung ailment. He left behind a substantial body of work and a reputation for greatness.
is best-known as the author of Animal Farm and 1984, and these books gave the language the overused adjective "Orwellian." However, these books were written relatively late in his life, and followed an impressive body of work that included accounts of his experiences as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, and as a "down and out" tramp roaming the English countryside We are first introduced to Winston Smith, Party member and civil servant, comes home to the ramshackle Victory Mansions in the capital of Airstrip One, which used to be called England. The London of Orwell's near future is very like London after World War II, with its ...
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Goldstein, the rebel leader on the television screen when Winston found himself distracted. The Party uses Goldstein to focus members' hatred. Like the Nazis, the Party whips up anti-Jewish sentiment - Goldstein is a Jewish name - along with hatred for the superpower they're currently at war with. When everybody's hatred is at a high pitch, the Party channels this hatred into love for Big Brother.
There are four parts to the government of Oceania and they are:
Minitrue, the Ministry of Truth, or propaganda arm. This is where Winston works.
Minipax, the Ministry of Peace, which makes war.
Miniplenty, the Ministry of Plenty, which arranges shortages.
Miniluv, the hated and ...
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