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He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
Following Trump's Orwellian "Liberation Day," a doublethinking America is on its way to becoming another Oceania.
And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.
Many of you have likely read George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984,” and though I usually despise clichés, I acknowledge that in my most recent reading of the novel I found myself ...
I read George Orwell’s 1984, picked up at the local library in 1965, when I was in middle school. I read it again in 1968 for ...
Have influenced modern literature and culture. Examples: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (romance and society) and 1984 by George Orwell (political and dystopian themes).
B ooks were smuggled on boats, trains and trucks, concealed in food tins, baby nappies and even the sheet music of travelling ...
Warp Films, known for shows such as “This is England,” The Virtues,” and “The Last Panthers,” smashed records with ...
Social activist Manjeet Hardev Singh diligently details the systematic killings by mobs directed by Congress supporters and abetted by conniving, and at times participatory, Delhi Police personnel ...
George Orwell disliked peace propaganda as much as he disliked war propaganda. Like war propaganda, he wrote, peace propaganda “concentrates on putting forward a ‘case,’ obscuring the opponent’s point ...
The texts invariably undergo a dramatic change. I decide to undertake the same exercise with George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which, if you remember, the animals rebel against their master ...
Stars Patrick Troughton and Sylvia Syms. George Orwell’s cautionary dystopian novel, first published in 1949. Dramatised by Eric Ewens. First broadcast as the Sunday Play on BBC Home Service in ...