This post is a summary of five articles. The first published at http://bradleydavies.blogspot.com.br/,with the title of, "Orwell`s 110th birthday." Published on 25 June,2013. The second with the title of "Happy birthday George Orwell." Published at http://www.mrhare.com/, on 26 June, 2013. The third, with the title of "George Orwell day begins annual commemoration." Published at http://www.theguardian.com, on 21 January,2013. Fourth, "1984:theme analysis." Published at http://www.novelguide.com. Fifth, "What would Orwell do?" Published at http://www.paperdroids.com/2013/06/25/what-would-orwell-do/, on June 25,2013.
An inspiration to authors and journalists of the world. Eric Blair was born this day, 110 years ago. Dying at the age of 46 to tuberculosis, Orwell spent his last years isolated racing his deteriorating health to finish what would become one of the most iconic and celebrated novels of the 20th century, "1984". Orwell wrote and lived in troubled times: He saw first-hand the bending of truths and the promulgation of untruths, he witnessed persecution and purges in Spain during Franco`s dictartorship, but perhaps most importantly, he witnessed the declining state of freedom in much of Europe. It is an indisputable certainty that the legacy of Orwell will persist for as long as there is tyranny and opression.
George Orwell (1903) was a prolific writer and journalist whose famous works include Animal Farm, 1984, and Down and Out in London and Paris. He took several jobs from teacher to fighting in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he was the BBC`s Eastern correspondent, where his role was to stop propaganda from Nazi German. In 1949, "1984" was published using his homegrown concepts such as "Big Brother is watching you", and "Doublethink." Ideas which have continued to carry weight in the society of today.
A major celebration of George Orwell kicks off today with the inaugural "Orwell Day". Orwell`s 1946 essay Politics and the English Language is being given away for free, as well as published in a edition by Penguin. "Political language and with variations is true of all political parties, is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind," wrote Orwell in the essay, and Jean Seaton, professor of history at the University of Westminster said, " we are now in a battle for the kind of nation we will live in as much as he was. Orwell is in the air and I think he is very relevant today. He puts truth before self. Very few of us can bear to do that. But nonetheless, we need people to do that, and he remind us of that. It is that bleak realism, expressed, it is what will keep us decent. Both his writing and in an odd kind of way his personal life stand for integrity. If there is one value that politicians, bankers and journalists, and our society as a whole, needs, it is no jargon, is more integrity."
Could the world in 1984 ever really exist? This question haunts readers from the first to the last pages of the novel. Sadly, the answer is yes. Orwell intends to portray Oceania just realistically enough to convince readers that such a society has, in fact, existed and could exist if people forget the lessons taught by history, or fail to guard against tyrannical, totalitarian governments. While it is difficult to pinpoint the specific sparks that set off World War II, the people fighting in the Allied armies must clearly believed that their mission was to crush totalitarism and restore democracy around the world. Given this context, 1984 political messages emerge clear.
This month marks what would be the 110th birthday of the man acclaimed as the father of dystopian fiction, the man with a whole science fiction subgenre named after him, the only George Orwell. He was not the first author to come up with the idea of a world in which a government has total control, but his novel, is a defining example of the genre. Orwell coined the term "Big Brother" and demonstrated how frightening propaganda can be. Orwell was a political writer and a keen observer of the shifting ideologies surrounding World War II. His books serve as dire warnings of what could happen if the proletarian classes remain indifferent to what their government can become. He believed ambiguity was the breeding ground for misinformation and propaganda, key aspects of his imagined government`s hold on power.
Prolific - producing many works.
Bleak - bare, exposed and unwelcoming.
Odd - unusual or unexpected strange.
Jargon - expressions or words used by a group that are difficult for other people to understand.
Prolific - producing many works.
Bleak - bare, exposed and unwelcoming.
Odd - unusual or unexpected strange.
Jargon - expressions or words used by a group that are difficult for other people to understand.
