Essays on George Orwell

According to Hayri Dundar, one can identify a dystopia as a society being controlled by an ideological radicalism where the rulers build the society on a struggle for utopia[footnoteRef:1]. Anthony Burgess and George Orwell successfully adhere to this summary within their dystopian novels A Clockwork Orange and 1984, respectively. As is the case with most...

George Orwell was born in 1903 in Motihari, India under the name Eric Arthur Blair. In his web article about Orwell, George Woodcock explains Orwell grew up in an atmosphere of “impoverished snobbery” (2018). At an early age, his parents sent him to a preparatory boarding school on the Sussex coast, where he was set...

I disagree with Orwell’s position because I don’t believe that the English language is just natural growth, it’s an instrument that we shape for our own purposes. Throughout the years the English language has changed, every single decade had people talking in different ways. Not because it has a “natural growth” like Orwell believes but...

George Orwell (1903-1950) was an English novelist, critic and essayist who is best known for developing a writing that was intrested in social awareness, by pointing out inequality, injustice and by promoting anti-totaliarian views. Regarded as one of the best political writers of the twentieth century, if not the best one, Orwell stated himself in...

George Orwell has earned the right to be called one of the finer writers in the English language through such novels as 1984, Animal Farm, and Down and Out in Paris and London. Orwell heavily criticized totalitarian governments in his writing and carried that same passion when it came to describing good writing. George Orwell...

Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory in which animals are personified to represent the struggles and conflicts of the Russian Revolution. In the story, the pigs govern everything that happens, whether it is something as minor as eating a meal, or something as important as fighting a battle. The word choice and language...

This essay comes to complete my presentation on the absolute control in George Orwell’s “Nineteen eighty-four. I have chosen this topic because the novel depicts a whole brainwashed society and shows what happens when an individual comes against the “natural” order of things. Orwell’s novel presents Winston’s radical transformation – from the initial status of...

The title of revolutionary, soldier, and author is a very rare and precious one. However, among the likes of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwell stands apart from the rest. Amidst a sea of fantastical realms and mystical creatures, Orwell’s works of “concentration camp literature” changed the way the modern novel was written(Oxley 75). Through...