Scarica George Orwell's summary e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! George Orwell Life: Eric Blair was born in India in 1903, as the son of a minor colonial official. Years later, he moved to England where he was educated at Eton where he developed on independent- minded personality and professed atheism and socialism. When he finished college, he started to work for the Indian imperial police in Burma from 1922 to 1927d, when he returned to England. Back in England, he started publishing his works with the pseudonym of George Orwell that added to him a sense of English; in the meantime, he had started a social experiment to live the real poverty. In 1936, he married Eileen who shared the same interests as him. In the same year he was commissioned by a left-wig publisher to investigate miner is working conditions. At the end of 1936, Orwell went to Catalonia to report on the Spanish civil war. When the Second World War broke out, he moved to London and joined the BBC in 1941. During this period, he became an influential voice. After the death of his first wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy in 1945, Orwell became desperately lonely and on 13 October 1949, he married Sonia Brownell, who is believed to be the model for Julia, the hero of 1984, only three months before his death from tuberculosis in 1950. Style: George Orwell is writing style is short and to the point. In fact, he avoids using figurative language, unnecessary words, and intricate language. As well, Orwell’s writings contain hidden political messages. He also criticizes the English language in his essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think. 1984: is a dystopian novel because it shows a possible future society that is anything but ideal and it was published in 1949. The book takes place in a future world in a perpetual state of war, divided in Oceania, Eurasia e Eastasia ruled by a figure called Big Brother who controlled the people’s lives. Here any expression of individuality is forbidden but the main character; Winston manages to buy a diary to express his thoughts to leave it for future generations. At the Ministry of Truth, he meets Julia with who will begin a secret affair. One day O’Brien a member of the “Inner Party” gives the couple a copy of a manifesto of a party against Big Brother some soldiers find this out and arrest the couple. Winston will be tortured until him has completely given up his identity. The whole book is a satire on hierarchical societies, which destroy fraternity. The themes of memory and mutual trust became important to Winston’s struggle to maintain his identity. Animal Farm: 1945.The book tells the story of a group of animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. However, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. Orwell says that the book reflects the events of the Russian revolution and the Stalin era. Animal Farm shows how the initial idealism of the revolution gradually decayed into inequality, hierarchy and finally dictatorship. This book does not attack the original ideals of the Revolution but the ways in which they were betrayed. A famous quote from this book is all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others that is a proclamation by the pigs who control the government. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to small elite.
