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GEORGE ORWELL (Erich Arthur Blair) - Coggle Diagram
GEORGE ORWELL (Erich Arthur Blair)
LIFE
1903 in India by a
colonial
official
1950 died of tuberculosis
Educated at
Eton
College
interest in literature
indipendent-minded personality
atheism
socialism
1922-Indian Imperial Police in Burma
1927 returned to England on sick-leave
devoted himself to writing
He criticise
BRITISH IMPERIALISM
1936 - went to Catalonia and fought in the Spanish
Civil War
joined the Worker's Party of Marxist Unification
1941-adopted Richard
1941-joined the BBC
1943-literary editor of The tribune
journalist
,
novelist
,
essayst
and
critic
ANIMAL FARM 1945
Allegorical
novel
unveil against
STALINISM
Because CIVIL WAR left him disullusion towards socialist ideas -->
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
and rejection of
TOTALITARISM
Leaders
: 2 Pigs = SNOWBALL and
NAPOLEON
Dictatorial regine
All the
Seven Commandments
are abandoned and only one remains: ‘all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’.
STYLE
concise and
simple
writing
detailed
recording
of world events
well defined
plots
use of
satyre
allegory
and
dystipia
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
1949
Windston Smith
protagonist
he fall in love with
Julia
imprisoned
and
tortured
set in
London
totalitarism of
BIG BROTHER
head of
THE PARTY
Dystopian
novel