The Impact Of Stalinism In 198
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Truly one of the greatest anti-utopian novels in history George Orwell's 1984 is a "nightmare vision" into the future of a world controlled by totalitarianism (Meyers 144). Through the character of Winston Smith, Orwell expresses his negative views on totalitarianism in Stalinist Russia and closely links the events in the novel to actual history.
George Orwell, the assumed name of writer Eric Arthur Blair, was born in 1903 in Bengal India. His father, Richard Blair, was a British official in the Indian civil services. His mother, Ida, was a governess and the daughter of a teak merchant in Burma ("Orwell, George." 1019). Orwell had one older sister, named Marjorie, who was born in 1898 ...
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among the other boys by his poverty and intellectual brilliance" ("Orwell, George." 1020). After attending St. Cyprian's he attended Wellington college for nine weeks in 1917 (Shelden 59). He won several scholarships and decided upon attending Eton from 1917 to 1921. His first writings appeared in the college periodicals at Eton. After leaving Eton, Orwell traveled to Burma as assistant district superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police ("Orwell, George." 1020). On January 1, 1928, he resigned his position to go to Paris and pursue a career as a writer (Kalechofsky vii).
During the following years he lived in the slums of England and France, working as a dishwasher and living in cheap lodging houses to gather material for his first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933 (Kalechofsky vii). His next novel Burmese Days was based on his experienced in Burma as a member of the Imperial Police. In 1935 his novel A Clergyman's Daughter was published ("Orwell, ...
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frequently reflects his own bleak mood and outlook (Calder 511). In such phrases as: "I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY" (Orwell 68) Orwell reflects his own confusion toward the motives of an ultimate power that has control over every aspect of life. Further into the novel this question is answered, "the object of power is power" (Orwell 217), which is the apparent truth or reasoning to Orwell, Similarly, one critic states "To
Orwell, it must have seemed that neither time nor future could budge Stalin, but that he would live forever with even increasing strength" (Asimov 316). This opinion is applied to Big Brother and the Party in 1984, even the direct question of the ...
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