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Winston Smith is a man with an illusion of a life, a life created by the government that decides what to think. He is forced to devote his life to Big Brother, the great dictator of the Outer party. Winston leads a seedy existence in the year of 1984, in Oceania. The party is casting … Read more
1984 by George Orwell has many literary aspects to it. The specific ones to be analyzed are the if Winston is a hero, nostalgia, symbol of paperweight, conflict of truth, and the family dynamics of 1984. Winston is not the typical hero of the story that saves the people from oppression and tyranny. However, Winston … Read more
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say” -Italo Calvino. According to (dictionary. com) a classic is a book that is “something noteworthy of its kind and worth remembering”. There are multiple definitions of what a classic is but all of them say that the book still needs … Read more
Propaganda generally is thought of in a bad light, as a means of manipulation and deception by people in power, but it is used by organizations who do great work as well, like the Women’s March, as a technique to garner support and empower people. Glittering generalities is a type of propaganda that uses an … Read more
Barbara Kingsolver, a novelist, once said, “Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side” (www. wiseoldsayings. com). This quote holds true in George Orwell’s 1984, as betrayal becomes the party’s solution to achieve absolute control over its people; the people become the betrayed and are … Read more
An Era of Political Corruption: The Philosophy of Communism Reimagined in the 1945 classic, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses a simple fable-style tale to demonstrate how the shadow of tyranny that progressively engulfs an English farm relates to the timeline of the Russian Revolution and the Stalin Era. With the collective effort of the animals … Read more
“Political language [… ] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” In George Orwell’s novel, 1984 and his essay “Politics and the English Language” there is a clear connection between politics, language, and expressing the truth. Politics aims to control people … Read more
In a world where almost everyone blindly follows a leader, there are bound to be problems. Where no thoughts are allowed, there is bound to be at least one that wants to rebel. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, all citizens of Oceania are kept under surveillance 24/7. There is no freedom in their … Read more
Orwell constructs Winston Smith as a protagonist that does not embody the traditional characteristics of a heroic character. He is heartfelt about his resistance, but Orwell creates a hero that fails. This is not the Quixotic hero, but rather one who is withered and weakened by the external reality. Unlike Quixote, the readers does not … Read more
Vladimir Lenin once said “Sometimes – history needs a push”. What Lenin is referring to in this quote is revolution, which is just what the animals on Mr. Jones’s farm plan to do in belief that animals are superior to humans and should be treated better than slaves to man in George Orwell’s novel Animal … Read more
