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George Orwell - Coggle Diagram
George Orwell
Life
Born in 1903 Bengal, India worked in British imperial police
easy work
“Down and Out in Paris and London” (33)
“Burmese Days” (34)
“A Clergyman’s Daughter” (35)
“Keep the Aspidistra Flying” (36)
anti-totalitarianism work
“Animal Farm” (45)
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” (49)
Key features and themes
set in a fictional totalitarian future
brainwashing
slogans used to control thinking
goal → distort reality
Surveillance
constant control through telescreens
“Big Brother is Watching You”
Nineteen Eighty-Four
controlled by The Party constant war with Eurasia
Eastasia
Winston Smith member of the Outer Party works at the Ministry of Truth
Newspeak and doublethink
Newspeak
if a word does not exist
Doublethink
two opposite ideas at the same time
The destopian society
Orwellian despotism → controls action and thought