What Is The Role Of Corruption In 1984 By George Orwell

George Orwell was born in 1903 in india, son to a british colonial official. A year after his birth, Orwell, his mother and his sister moved to England. His father stayed and worked India and rarely visited the family. Orwell did not really get to know his father until he retired from his work in 1912. And even after that, they never formed a strong bond. 1922 did he travel to Burma and was employed in the british police force. He later volunteered to fight on the government side in the spanish war, and under world war II worked Orwell for BBC. Orwell was married twice, first to Elieen Blair and later, after her death, to Sonia Orwell. He adopted one child with Elieen. 1984 was the last book he Orwell wrote and tells the story of Winston Smith
In the book, the government is clearly the bad guy. Orwell worked as an English police officer in Burma during his early years. There he experienced corruption for the first time. In the book, the main character learns that everything isn’t as it seems. The government in the book is not necessarily corrupt money wise, but you can get higher in society with information. If someone tell on anyone who have done something illegal and report it to the authorities, they will be rewarded. Instead of money is power, knowledge is power. Corruption are also shown in the book when the members of the inner party are using the people to get what they want and think they deserves, they have bigger houses, more money, and more freedom.

At the same time, Orwell also saw the negative sides of imperialism at his time in Burma, something the reader can spot in the book. Orwell describes a community at the end of London where people live in extreme poverty and the members of party don’t usually go. The people who live there have more freedom, but is forced to produce all the goods to the members of the party. This community have a lot of similarities with the old colonies, bigger countries takes what they want without giving back anything in
He fought in one war, and lived through both world wars. Orwell got a lot of inspiration from the world wars, and the society in the book is a future where the bad guys at Orwell's time, the Nazis and Communists, have all the power. In the book, everything is distributed equally to the people by the government, something that is one of the biggest traits in communism. Orwell are also not a stranger to distributed resources, then he experienced two world wars, where food stamps where common. In the book Orwell thinks about how people disappear, like his own mother and brother, and realizes that he soon will disappear, not because he does something wrong, because he is old, weak and unimportant. This goes well in the lines of Nazism, where the old, ill and weak didn’t have a place in the society. Propaganda is another thing that was common under the WWII and are well represented in the book. The government censor all media in society, and constantly changes the history, after what is best for them at the moment. And people believe in them, because they have no other source of information, just like in the times of WWII. The government creates a enemy to blame all the faults in this world on, so when things go wrong the people get mad at the enemy not the government. In 1939 it was the jews, in 1984 it was the