George Orwell Satire

INTRODUCTION: George Orwell was born in eastern India on 25 June 1903. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair but Orwell was his pen name he was the son of British colonial servant. He was well-educated and wrote many novels such as Burmese Days, Down And Out in Paris, Animal Farm and Nineteen- Eighty Four. He is famous for writing satires on totalitarianism his satirical novel Animal Farm is persuasive however satire has its roots in ancient Greece. English literature has a tradition for writing satirical literature when Astrophanes in his plays ridiculed the political leaders while Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” scathingly. It is likely to be known that George Orwell followed that tradition in literature and his attempts in uniting art and politics …show more content…
However, Orwell in his each and every novel criticized relentlessly against political dishonesty and power.
After joining the Independent Labor Party in 1938 he becomes a democratic socialist and was against Communism, which means that when a person is given their property according to his or her needs and ability while the whole property belongs to a system of social organization. Similarly, Orwell was against imperialism, which is when a country expands its power by controlling other areas of the world. Alternatively, the theory or ideology which is made by Joseph Stalin on the basis of centralization of power is known as Stalinism and Orwell had a deeply-rooted hate for Stalinism because of its injustice. In the same way totalitarianism and fascism are alike, a complete submission of the state under a tyrant leader or a dictator and suppressing the opposition specifically. Orwell was probably against dictatorship, the term dictatorship is basically a Latin term, dictatorship originally started when in Roman Republic a magistrate was given some extra power in order to tackle the state affairs when it was in critical situation.