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The Hanging By George Orwell Essay

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George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. Orwell was born in 1903 in India, where his father was stationed for military. Later George Orwell moved to england with his mother and older sister Marjorie. After relocating in England away from his father, he wrote two novels that he became famous for. Orwell’s first novel that brought him fame was Animal Farm, which was published in 1945. Four short years later he published Nineteen Eighty-Four, where he depicted how society would be thirty-five years into the future. Which hints at why he titled the book as he did. Although there are clear differences in society and how he depicted it would be in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, he still predicted the surveillance, silence of speech, …show more content…

George orwell took capital punishment and exposed the wrong in taking an innocent life in his essay titled The Hanging. In Orwell’s essay The hanging, he tells the story of a puny Hindu man that was due to be hanged. Orwell used a dog to metaphorically represent the voice of reason that kept nagging at the guards constantly while they walked through the gallows. This particular essay also proves his superiority in political writing and dystopian societies due to his effectiveness of the dog representing the opposition to capital punishment. He purposely chose the dog, to be the only one noticing the immorality in capital punishment all while the human beings were carelessly, and unmindfully taking the life of another human being. After the man had been hanged, orwell further illuminated the wrong in capital punishment by saying “ We all had a drink together, native and European alike, quite amicably.by recognizing all the commonalities amongst all humans. Which theoretically states only a higher power should be able to decide who and who does not live. Orwell accomplished his goal of informing people of the immorality of taking a life,that in itself sets him apart from other writers because he is able to sway people who have already decided their

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