George Orwell

Orwell born in India in 1903 Orwell was educated at Eton, in England where he began to
develop an independent-minded personality, indifference to accepted values, and
professed atheism and socialism.

Life: On leaving college he started to work for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (1922-1927).
He hated working in Burma and returned to England on sick-leave.

Once back in England he devoted himself to writing full time, publishing his works with the
pseudonym of George Orwell.

Animal Farm (1945) → It’s a political allegory where human/historical characters are
replaced by personified animals. Representation all types of revolution.
Works:
A dystopian novel, a classic of science fiction (1984) → It denounces totalitarianism

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) → his most original novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four
Where? London, the capital of Oceania.

 BIG BROTHERS is a political party that control a population with violence, secret and psychological
influence.
 creation of newspeak: Newspeak to eliminate literature, thoughts and consciousness for reinforce
Party conformity.

Newspeak eliminates undesirable words and invents new words

How? WINSTON SMITH, a member of the party who works for the Ministry of Truth.

He rebels against the oppression of the regime and he think in the existence of objective truth.

he meet julia and they foll in love.

Smith and Julia are arrested and tortured and brainwashed.

At the end Winston is a broken man but a perfect citizen and he love the big brother.
 This works are a criticism of totalitarianism

the date 1984 is the inversion of 1948 reflect the totalitarian of 30' and 40' years.

It focus:

- conformity,
- not freedom,
- control of language and of the thought.
- elimination of the human value for political value.

WINSTON SMITH

evokes Churchill important person is the commonest English surname so

during the Second World War. the hero is a sort of Everyman.

He hates The Party but he surrenders in room 101, the

place where he was tortured, at the end lose her
personality.

the nazzism and

communism are a
political party ipocrity
beacause reseach the
consece of people whit
lies while the big
brothers is sincerity and
do all for the pawer.
Big Brother
is the governament of Oceania. He looks like a
combination of Hitler and Stalin.
Big Brother’s God-like image is stamped on coins and
projected on telescreens, he look all and know all
thoughth.

▪ Language as an instrument for power and coercion.

▪ Another instrument of power and mass control is doublethink, the ability of holding 2 contrasting
ideas at the same time, even when they are contradictory. To erase the Past and make people
believe in its truths.