George Orwell is an English novelist and literary master during the early 20th century. Orwell wrote the piece “Politics and the English Language” as a means of critiquing "ugly and inaccurate” written speech during his time but for all times as well. In it, he also establishes and explains a relationship amidst political conventions and the ever-increasing degradement of the English language. Orwell claims that grammar and syntax lead to a number of consequence that ultimately promote vagueness
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to connect what they read to their life, other texts, and the world’s affairs. While reading “On Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell we could interpret deeper meaning and better understanding of the text by reading it through a Cultural Critical lens. Readers could manage to find deeper in the meaning through other perspectives, such as reader response, by comparing how George acted to how they would act in the same situation but, reading the text through a cultural
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George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty Four, uses various motifs to help him convey his message. Orwell gives one particular simple household article symbolic significance, in order to develop a theme which is important to him. The specific object which Orwell uses as a motif, is a beautiful glass paperweight. For the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, this paperweight represents both beauty without purpose, as well as ongoing hope for the reclamation of his happier, liberated past, and a
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In 1984, George Orwell discusses the concept of doublethink, a major motif that appears throughout the story. In essence, doublethink is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas as equally true in one’s mind at the same time. Though this concept seems unachievable today, Orwell shows it in the story as an actual tool used by the people of Oceania to disregard the truth. The government of Oceania uses doublethink to brainwash their citizens into believing whatever is suitable to the government
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not a fairy story at all, it is a very real event, and it happened right under our noses. George Orwell's “Animal Farm” was an allegorical novella written about the Russian Revolution. Set on a farm with a cast of almost exclusively animals Orwell used this novel to illustrate how Russia had failed in their revolution in a way that was easy to understand and translate. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, many animals represent important figures and groups from the Russian Revolution. This is
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translates to the control of the body’ how far do you agree? Totalitarianism is a common theme ground between ‘The Colour Purple’ and ‘1984’ where both protagonists seem to be ‘suspended’ and ‘were lost in a period that offered no hope of progress’ George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ have a society where there is complete control and oppression, which eventually translates to the control of the body, we are presented with the party members and the black women protagonists being
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984”, depicts a society of which the fictional symbol, Big Brother, is the totalitarian leader, and the single party controls everything. Big Brother and the party have instilled the idea that, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past”, meaning that the past can be altered to one's desire, in this case to Big Brother’s. Winston, the protagonist of the novel, works at the Ministry of truth in the records department, where
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Animal Farm is George Orwell’s allegory in which every character and situation to make a point for real life characters and situations. Orwell being born in the twentieth-century created “some of the sharpest satirical fiction,” said by Biography. Addressing major political movements of his time such as imperialism, communism, and fascism all while including his personal. Opinion about each political movement was not necessarily allowed during the twentieth century. Living life as a son from a
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Ivarsson 1 Victor Ivarsson English 100 – 19 Professor Fisher Essay 4 – draft one December 9, 2014 Intro: The world we live in today is far more globalized than that of our previous generation. Before social media and other instant forms of communication existed, people did not need to worry about speaking a different language or the way it was spoken. Dialects and accents had little meaning because of the barriers that surrounded each community prohibited the inhabitants of much interaction
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Literature often reflects the society we live in. Similarly, dystopian literature explores the unpleasant and overlooked components of society. 1984 was written by George Orwell in the year 1949 to reflect on the possibility of a totalitarian government in the near future. Furthermore, the book examined the harsh reality of living under total control of the government. It also demonstrated Winston Smith’s, the protagonist, efforts in challenging the whole system. Therefore, an analysis of Winston’s
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