George Orwell

Author George Orwell has created a strong impactful story in the form of Animal Farm. "Bright will shine the fields of England, Purer shall its waters be, Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes On the day that sets us free." This is the fifth verse of Beasts of England, a song sang by the characters in animal farm in the spirit of a rebellion to cast out the human race from England no matter the cost, as presented further in the story. In this inventive tale George Orwell creates a…

pressured someone into something? Do you ever feel like you need to do something to impress the people around you? Do you ever want to feel cool? Can you feel cool doing something that felt wrong to you? In the story Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, George was peer pressured into shooting, an elephant for the Burmese. There could have been thousands of reasons, why he should have shot the elephant, but there could have been one to not shoot the elephant. The story provides great details,…

The party, Big Brother, from George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” may resemble Soviet Union’s dictator, Joseph Stalin, to readers. Stalin ruled over the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, until his death in the 1950s. He was notorious for the power he had held over his people, as well as, all of his ruthless assassinations. The government in Orwell’s novel, Big Brother, watches its people through telescreens, listens to its people’s conversations and thoughts, and controls what the people know about the…

15 The Tyranny of Obedience In both, Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell and Learning to Read and Write, by Frederick Douglass, the author’s explore through their personal experiences, the poisonous effects that tyrannical institutions have not only on the oppressed but the oppressors themselves. Although, Orwell is different from Douglass because he enforces an oppressive regime, while Douglass is enslaved to his master, they both suffer in their…

Growing up, all my teachers told me to read books. They told me that reading books is good for your and, it would make you smarter. When I was younger, I really didn’t understand how reading fiction books made me smarter. I always thought non-fiction were the books to increase your knowledge because they were real events. Real is better than fake so, I really didn’t understand how you could learn from fictional books until now. Because I thought that you couldn’t learn from reading, I stopped…

Eric Arthur Blair, known to most by his pseudonym George Orwell, is best known for his opinionated, dystopian-future novels. In addition to his success as a novelist, Orwell was also an accomplished author of non-fiction. In his non-fiction story “Shooting an Elephant,” published in 1936, Orwell discusses his experiences working as a sub-divisional police officer in Burma and how his experiences changed his perspective on imperialism and society. Orwell uses a variety of literary techniques in…

novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. In the afternoon of a once peaceful animal farm, the ruthless, self-absorbed leader, Napoleon, gathered the animals together. Napoleon growled accusations of animals among them siding with his arch nemesis snowball. Terrified, a group of hens slid forward and with a cruel motion Napoleon’s dogs had torn out their throats. This act of terror by Napoleon parallels the actions a similar dictator, Kim Jong II took when in control of North Korea. George Orwell’s…

symbolizing specific groups and historical figures. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, criticized the violent events that happened under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. As Stalin’s allegory in the novel, Napoleon make horrible tragedies happen when the animals decide to revolt or question his actions and decisions- Snowball getting chased out by the dogs, the killing of the three pigs by the dogs, and the declaration of Mollie being a traitor. Orwell, uses these violent scenes to demonstrate and…

1984 by George Orwell is portrayed in many dystopian ways. It talks about the dystopian society people live in, how the control people are under is dystopian and Winston being a dystopian protagonist. In the novel, Orwell shows a dystopia with his way of a futuristic setting while showing the fear of technology. In a dystopian society and/or technological trends have contributed to a corrupted or degraded state of deprivation and oppression. Governmental tyranny and an exploitation of the people…

Rule, Un-opposed The rise of communism throughout the early to mid-20th century brought in an era of and admiration for the communist political ideology under Josephs Stalin’s rule. During its rise, George Orwell, an English author, created the book Animal Farm to combat the ever growing acceptance to communism in a satirical way. Each animal (character), were parts of the underlining meaning on how the communist system is broken and corrupt, despite having a concept of equality, as the pigs are…