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GEORGE ORWELL (Eric Arthur Blair) - Coggle Diagram
GEORGE ORWELL (Eric Arthur Blair)
PROFILE
• Journalist, essayist, novelist
• Opposed all forms of totalitarianism
• Worked for BBC (propaganda awareness)
• Fought in Spanish Civil War
MAIN IDEAS
• Danger of totalitarian regimes
• Propaganda and manipulation
• Loss of freedom and truth
• Control of language and thought
ANIMAL FARM (allegorical novella)
Plot
• Animals rebel against Mr. Jones
• Aim: equality and freedom
• Pigs take control (Napoleon, Snowball)
Symbolism
• Pigs → corrupt leaders (Stalinism)
• Dogs → secret police / violence
• Moses the raven → religion as control
Message
• Revolution betrayed
• “All animals are equal,
but some are more equal than others”
1984 (dystopian novel)
Setting
• Totalitarian state: Oceania
Regime tools
• Big Brother → constant surveillance
• Slogans → “War is peace…”
• Thought Police → control of ideas
• Newspeak → limits language and thought
• Telescreens → propaganda + monitoring
Characters
• Winston Smith → rebel protagonist
• Julia → partner in rebellion
Themes
• Control of truth and history
• Loss of individuality
• Elimination of freedom
slogan
“Freedom is Slavery”
“Ignorance is Strength”
“War is Peace”
LIFE
• Born in 1903 in India (British Empire)
• Educated in England
• Worked as police officer in Burma
• Became journalist and writer
• Fought in Spanish Civil War
• Experienced poverty and illness (tuberculosis)
• Died in 1950