George Orwell Religion

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

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

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