The socialist man who stood up against the Communist ideology. There are many people in history that have made the “easy” decisions. Coping with the society and the injustice rules, unequal social systems and the prejudice authority. Mr. George Orwell has however, stood up against the mainstream ideas, exposed the presence of injustice and hypocrisy in our society, and expressed his anti-soivet opinions in the mid-1950s. Even though Great Britain and the Soviet Union had a favorable relationship in the post-world war era, his books, Animal farm and 1984, were a satire of the Soviet Union, criticizing its leaders, Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. His exact words on his book Animal Farm, when he was explaining the purpose of this book, was “to
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Orwell’s views on our society, was his time working in Burma as a civil servant. After attending a boarding school in EastBourne, vividly noticing the special treatment of the school to the wealthy kids, his disdain toward the privileged drastically germinated, and this hatred lead to the resentment toward the imperialist British rule on Burma. After graduating a university in Eton, he wanted to get a job (BBC). And accepting the job in Burma was seen to him as an opportunity to leave his hometown which held firm “middle-class” values. Seeing the brutal look of the working poor and the dark side of the cruel reality of British rule on Burma with his own eyes, he got despised with the imperial ideas, which is an irony since the reason he was there is to efficiently execute those ideas. Later he found himself rooting for the local population instead of his own …show more content…
His contempt toward the communist influences led to his participation. He was assigned to an Anarchist – Trotskyist party – P.O.U.M. They believed in the ideal of a real Marxist revolution. For the members of the P.O.U.M, the war was about delivering a socialist change for the working classes. He was really excited by the passionate revolution however, his emotions were overrun by the betrayal of the Soviet, Stalinist backing the communist (BBC). After being shot during the war, he came back to England. And his experience in Spain later helped him on his novel, Animal Farm. Three years later, he wrote another book that also criticized the communist ideology. Showing a glimpse of what would happen if every detail of our daily lives were controlled by the government (A&E Networks
Orwell’s views on our society, was his time working in Burma as a civil servant. After attending a boarding school in EastBourne, vividly noticing the special treatment of the school to the wealthy kids, his disdain toward the privileged drastically germinated, and this hatred lead to the resentment toward the imperialist British rule on Burma. After graduating a university in Eton, he wanted to get a job (BBC). And accepting the job in Burma was seen to him as an opportunity to leave his hometown which held firm “middle-class” values. Seeing the brutal look of the working poor and the dark side of the cruel reality of British rule on Burma with his own eyes, he got despised with the imperial ideas, which is an irony since the reason he was there is to efficiently execute those ideas. Later he found himself rooting for the local population instead of his own …show more content…
His contempt toward the communist influences led to his participation. He was assigned to an Anarchist – Trotskyist party – P.O.U.M. They believed in the ideal of a real Marxist revolution. For the members of the P.O.U.M, the war was about delivering a socialist change for the working classes. He was really excited by the passionate revolution however, his emotions were overrun by the betrayal of the Soviet, Stalinist backing the communist (BBC). After being shot during the war, he came back to England. And his experience in Spain later helped him on his novel, Animal Farm. Three years later, he wrote another book that also criticized the communist ideology. Showing a glimpse of what would happen if every detail of our daily lives were controlled by the government (A&E Networks