George Orwell

1903 - 1950 *

an advocate of democratic socialism, Orwell's social allegories are some of the most powerful critiques of totalitarian societies

Orwell found the stimulus for his work in the social wrongs around him. He was astonishished with the poor working conditions in his home country, England, and he looked and travelled further abroad. There, he discovered the horrors of National Soviet Germany and Stalinist Russia, and his novels are a critique of these totalitarian societies.

In one of his most famous novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell explores a society which has control over every aspect of an individual's life; and in his acclaimed allegorical story, Animal Farm, he explores the route to power in such societies.

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English novelist, essayist and critic, famous for his novels ANIMAL FARM (1945) and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949), classics of political satire. The book shows that the destruction of language is part of all other oppression. Although Orwell expressed leftist views, he remained to the end of his life an uncompromising individualist and political idealist. Orwell was called by his contemporaries the conscience of his age.

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, than one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push as... [read entire biography]

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Dystopia Forever -- Can the government of Orwell's 1984 maintain power indefinitely? Includes comparisons with other political works.
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Animal Farm - Was the Rebellion Doomed to Failure? -- Was the rebellion doomed to failure from the beginning?
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