George Orwell

Face-Saving Sucks In “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell shares his regret of harming an innocent elephant just to save face. If more people were aware of the extent of damage that face-saving causes, maybe they would stop and even encourage others to stop as well. Face-saving starts with peer pressure, society rules, and common lifestyles that create violence, results in injury, harm, or death, and is often regretted once the act is completed. The violence that peer pressure, society…

class hierarchy. Throughout the book there are many examples of class hierarchy. One example of class hierarchy is expressed on chapter 8. .In chapter 8 the most protruding expression of class hierarchy is exemplified through the text. In the text George Orwell states, “Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others. He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room. It was…

Throughout the history of literature, “words” have been of the utmost importance. This is clearly apparent in 1984 and Rhetoric. Though in different manners, both of these texts use the power of words to convey their respective points to the reader. George Orwell uses words in 1984 to emphasize the necessity of freedom of information and the freedom of speech in our society. In Rhetoric, Aristotle shows how words can be used to build and convey a strong argument using tactics such as ethos,…

George Orwell uses this novel to recall the totalitarian societies that had caused suffering and conflict among people which he embodies in 1984. This novel portrays Stalin and Hitler who had higher authority over everyone, the greed for power, belief of cleansing the world of wrong doings and total control. The Big Brother depicted in the novel was mostly the same as Stalin. Even in the portrayal of the character Big Brother, he is described as “man of forty-five, with a heavy black moustache,…

The Methods of Totalitarianism The novel 1984 by George Orwell explores a world of complete and total government control. Being a dystopian novel, 1984 explores a bleak world in which all thoughts are monitored and the three major world powers are in constant warfare. Oceania, the superstate in which the book takes place, is under the control of Big Brother and the four ministries that help run the government. The four ministries can control all life within Oceania. 1984 shows totalitarianism in…

Animal Farm Responses: Response #1: How are the pigs and their role in the governance of Animal Farm a symbol for more educated and more intelligent members of society that are required to do little physical labour? In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses the animals and the roles that they play in the story as symbols for different classes of people in a real society. The role that a particular species assumes in Animal Farm is closely related to the real characteristics of that…

In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” the main character faces an internal struggle over right or wrong. Everyone, at some point or another, thinks “why am I doing this?” or “is this the correct decision?” Because we ask these questions of ourselves, this does not mean we necessarily have full control as interpreted by the French philosopher Louis Althusser. Ideological State Apparatuses such as law, religion, and politics are rife in "Shooting an Elephant" and George Orwell realizes that…

distinguishes a person from others of the same kind. In 1984, by George Orwell, there is a lack of individuality in the citizens due to the control of the government. Since individuality would go against all of Orwell’s branches of ministry within the government, steps are taken to avoid it. Although there are singularity that arise within the community, it is fear that puts citizens back into what the government wants. Orwell creates new technologies and new branches of government to keep…

George Orwell’s novel, 1984, and Thomas C. Foster’s novel, How To Read Literature Like A Professor, have several comparisons. Winston Smith, thirty-nine year old worker for the Ministry of Truth, is stuck in a totalitarian environment that he strongly disagrees with. However it is wise for him to keep his feelings to himself because “Big Brother is always watching.” 1984 relates widely to chapter thirteen, It’s All Political , of How To Read Literature Like A Professor. 1984 is a novel with…

innocent man was put on the spot and no one would have expected this to happen. A poor man in lower Burma had to make a vital decision whether he should bend the rules of his British peers or to follow his own heart. Throughout “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell attains many main accomplishments. At first he shows us his personal experience while he stayed in Burma. This story was full of metaphors which pointed out the main themes. The elephant is a metaphor for many things like the man's…