Articles by George Orwell
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
March 1947 – George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist. “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” In this vigorous essay, he derides the captivity of the Party line.
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George Orwell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. Since the novel’s publication, “Orwellian” has in fact become somewhat of a catch-all for any kind of governmental overreach or dishonesty and therefore has multiple meanings and applications. The phrase Big Brother is Watching You specifically connotes pervasive, invasive surveillance.
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George Orwell,
9 Nov 2008
A robotized society, controlled by fear of spurious attackers and through torture, was supposed to be an alert, not a blueprint for the future. A prophetic fiction indeed, Big Brother was to become a big TV hit that would brainwash minds throughout the planet into mediocrities. Nineteen Eighty Four was first published in 1949.CLICK TO […]
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