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George Orwell, despite being Anglican in name was an atheist man, his real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell despised in blindly believing and not questioning, he considered religion to be irrational and that it encouraged to think groundlessly with no logic. ‘1984’ published in 1949 was the conclusion to George Orwell 's writings, which were influenced by his life and views regarding the Russian revolution of 1917 and the stalinist era of the Soviet union. His experience of World War two inspired him to write ‘1984’, which served as a warning to the readers by presenting a complete totalitarian society and an extreme version of the German society then. We can see how Orwell’s beliefs and his views on religion, politics and the extent of …show more content…

The society in the novel directly mirrors the societies around Orwell, where oppression was a reality for instance in Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union and many other countries, where the governments kept an iron fist around its citizens. Orwell loathed the politics of the leaders he saw rise to power. Orwell was a Social Democrat and an anarchist sympathiser. Orwell’s life was composed of the most politically interesting and tumultuous years in Europe. He witnessed the atrocities of the Soviet Union, the rise and fall of the fascist dictatorships of Mussolini-Italy, Hitler 's Germany and Franco’s Spain, Orwell even contributed his efforts to the Spanish civil war, siding with the Anarchist. In the novel, Orwell presents the world to be in a constant state of war and the only goal being to focus all emotional capabilities of the citizens to hate the enemy and to love big brother, interestingly similar to the methods Hitler used on Germany, stirring up an aggressive form of nationality which deemed everyone else to be inferior. Much like Nazi-Germany’s totalitarian state and the Soviet Union, Orwell combined these two traits into ‘1984’ satirizing any form of governmental totalitarianism, he makes his intentions clearly recognizable to the readers by painting a grim picture in in the novel. He shows how totalitarianism only negatively affects the human spirit and how it is impossible to remain freethinking in such …show more content…

Orwell wrote ‘1984’ as a warning to his readers and to educate about the consequences of certain political philosophies and ideologies. The main assertion, that Orwell wanted to address in the novel, is that all democracies and governments evolve into totalitarian states once and if all civil liberties are suspended. Which is how he wrote the novel,satirizing socialism by painting a grim picture of ‘1984’ to showcase this extreme version of a totalitarian society in comparison to the society he lived

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Many a literary critic claims that the strongest aspect of the book 1984 by George Orwell is its plot. Indeed, there is some merit in this conclusion, as the entire purpose of Orwell’s writing of this book was not to create a literary classic, but to warn the public about the dangers of communism if it got out of hand, and what better way to do this than to write an engaging plot? Others may claim that 1984’s greatest strength is in its character development. This aspect, too, is quite strong in the book, as not only are the minor characters effected in serving the dystopian theme, but the major characters are believable and very human in their failings. Winston’s transformation from an oppressed office worker to revolutionary and finally

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As the world watched World War II emerge as one of the biggest wars in the history of the universe, George Orwell wrote 1984 to criticize the totalitarian approach of the socialist leaders in countries like Germany and the U.S.S.R. The book was written in 1948 when the act of communism became a dangerously threatening type of government to the citizens all over the world. In 1984, Winston, the main character of the novel, reflects on London’s dystopian society by creating his own diary, which is an act that brings him immense threat to the quality of his life. Even today, many citizens face the same types of situations that Winston experiences throughout the book. There are obvious parallels between the novel and America in 2016 in concepts

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The novel 1984 by George Orwell reveals the destruction of all aspects of the universe. Orwell envisioned how he believes life would be like if a country were taken over by a totalitarian figure. Nineteen eighty-four effectively portrays a totalitarian style government, in which elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation with very little citizen participation in the decision-making process of the legislative body. Although the authors ideas are inherently and completely fictional, several concepts throughout his book have common links to today’s society which is somehow a realist perspective. Orwell integrates devices such as irony, satire, and motifs to illustrate the life unfulfilling life of Winston Smith.

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