1984 By George Orwell Analysis

George Orwell is a famous author. He has written many essays and published one of the most successful satirist novels in history. His approach to criticizing society is very interesting. Orwell likes to create stories with strong political statements. while he uses different mediums, his works typically criticize a part of society that he disagrees with by creating a future In which his fears are realized. Orwell is known for his work in influencing popular culture. His essays and novels are famous for their criticism of society. Some of his most notable works include Shooting an Elephant, You and the Atomic Bomb, and 1984. The stories are not subtle about their message. Shooting an Elephant openly talks about the role of the british people

The messages are intended for society as a whole. nothing is too complicated or too technical, Orwell just wants everyone else to see the future that he envisions. He opens You and the Atomic Bomb with. “Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic bomb has not roused so much discussion as might have been expected.”. Orwell has a knack for seeing the unexpected or sometimes understated dangers of the way society was behaving at the time he was alive. In 1984 he warns the world about the dangers of blindly following authority. If the government has so much influence over an individual that they can control the individuals thoughts, then all laws of the universe can be broken. Orwell wrote, “Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. ‘If I wished,’ O’Brien had said, ‘I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.’ Winston worked it out. ‘If he THINKS he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously THINK I see him do it, then the thing happens.’ “(350). Orwell takes small aspects of society that he thinks could be dangerous down the line, and expands on it so much that they can be made into whole

His essays and novels typically have a hopeless tone. His pessimistic outlook is reflected in You and the Atomic Bomb where he writes “ But suppose — and really this the likeliest development — that the surviving great nations make a tacit agreement never to use the atomic bomb against one another? Suppose they only use it, or the threat of it, against people who are unable to retaliate? In that case we are back where we were before, the only difference being that power is concentrated in still fewer hands and that the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes is still more hopeless.”. Orwell doesn’t see much hope for the future, he always looks to be bracing for the worst. In Shooting an Elephant, Orwell writes, “ I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the ‘natives’, and so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. [...] And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at.”. Even while in a position of immense power Orwell