How Does George Orwell Affect Society

“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (Orwell). George Orwell is a British Arthur, who believes that the government is a system that just wants to control society as stated in the above quote. He wrote in the modernism time era, and wrote about criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. Has a writer, living in a time of new government developments and a war zone this influenced his writing style. George Orwell’s life affected his writing by his political beliefs, control of society by the government through inventions, and how communism affected a society.
George Orwell was the son of a British civil servant. His family spent
Nineteen Eighty-Four was a pro socialist and anti communist novel. Orwell gave readers an inside look at what would happen if the government controlled every detail of an individual’s life. A quote from George Orwell shows how Nineteen Eighty-Four can be represented in some way, “Orthodoxy means not thinking.. not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” (Orwell, 30). This novel illustrates the pervasive control that power hungry leaders can have over citizens. In Nineteen Eighty-Four the society is a dystopia. A dystopia is the opposite of utopia. The society is characterized by oppression, misery, and also having a totalitarian form of government. The government in his book controls everything that the society does and what knowledge they have of current events or past events. His novel has been brought up in recent days comparing the technology and the way the government operates. For example, Telescreens in Nineteen Eighty-Four were large metal screens that projected voices or images. They could also see what others were doing to keep a close on workers or just individuals in general. This invention has often been compared to what we have today known as cameras. These both are used to monitor your every move. Knowing this technology exist people use the reference in the book “Big Brother is watching you.”(Orwell,2). This is used to petrify individuals of the society into behaving
The novel stands for the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a anti-Soviet satire in a pastoral setting. It features two pigs has the main protagonists. The two pigs are said to represent Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Together the animals come up with seven commandments of Animalism. Animalism in the novel stands for communism in reality. The animals began to rebel against humans and believe that they are the better species stating that, “The only good human is a dead one.”(Orwell,37). The two main pigs in the novel also began to go against one another. But they make all the other animals do everything they want or need. For example, the other animals were basically slaves to them. They worked hard gathering food and doing work around the farm. Animal farm brought George Orwell a great acclaim and financial