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Political Writing & George Orwell (George Orwell (raised in England…
Political Writing & George Orwell
George Orwell
born Eric Blair in Burma (1903)
raised in England
won scholarship at Eton
hated colonialism, but worked as a policeman for the Empire ('Shooting an Elephant')
straddled economic class - Pen name (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
(1945)
The purpose
Orwell was against STALINISTIC Soviet regime - a perversion of communist ideas
The characters
Major (prize pig)
Marx / Lenin
humans
tyrannical, usurpers, tzar, non-productive, exploitative
Benjamin (donkey)
historian? ideology?
passive / a spectator
Squealer (pig)
propagandaist
Sheep
mindless followers
Snowball (pig)
Trotsky, a scapegoat
Napoleon
Stalin
Boxer (horse)
the ideal worker (a form of propaganda)
presents a risk and the worker
doesn't want to kill
Mollie (horse)
was the upper-middle class
doesn't want to work
ribbons and sugar
The dogs
the police / military
brain washed
The story
utopia
'slavery' for the unity
dystopia
division, breaking rules
slogan
'four legs good, two legs bad'
US vs. THEM
needs to be catchy
common enemy
dehumanised
'comrades'
Song as unification
'Beasts of England'
The windmill
Snowball's idea which Napoleon takes credit for after Snowball is discredited
breaks down due to poor structure (Snowball's fault)
money for whiskey
Boxer sold to the glue factory
don't drink too much!
shows that the pigs are corrupt
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1984)
dystopic novel about socialism turning into an authoritarian nightmare
'Big Brother', 'Newspeak', 'Doublethink', '2+2=5'
'Politics and the English Language'
(1946)
decay of language has its implications
these can be reversed
meaning of language is disappearing
Harry Truman:
'The Truman Doctrine'
(1947)
The cold war / the red scare
US should help Greece and Turkey to protect their own interests in Europe
Winston Churchill:
'The Sinews of Peace'
(1946)
the hard-won peace must not be compromised
therefore: NATO