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GEORGE ORWELL
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GEORGE ORWELL
1903 - 1950 
Biography
- Born in India and moved in England to study in a preparatory school and than to Eton College.
- He developed a resentment towards authority and the governement.
- He moved to Paris, writing about social themes. He become a journalist and went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
- He wrote a book named Homage to Catalonia, documenting his experience, and also criticizes the totalitarianism.
Profile
- He considered his work a social and political instrument for the comprehension of human society.
- This novels deal with social themes, and political themes; the danger of totalitarianism, exploitation of the masses, the lies of official information.
- The masses are manipulated, their revolutions are doomed to failure by a lack of unifying values and of class-consciousness.
- His language is simple so as to become an actual instrument of information and communication.
- He wanted to turn political writing into art, fusing political and artistic purpose into one thing.
Works
- Animal Farm (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949)
- Burmese Days (1934)
- Homage to Catalonia (1938)
1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts (rappresenta) the perfect totalitarian state, here the aim is the abolition of man and the pursuit of power.
Most of the instruments for controlling the inhabitants of Oceania that the Party created.were inspired by the actual reality of the actual regime.
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Short plot
A man named Winston Smith lives under a repressive regime. He meets Julia, with whom he will share many moments, even intimate ones. provide his only measure of enjoyment. But lawmakers frown on the relationship and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
One of Orwell's most important messages in 1984 is that language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing.