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that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

there. This is further evidenced by another critic who indicates how, ""George Orwell actually was indeed a policeman in Burma in ...

In five pages the transformation of George Orwell's novel from text to film is discussed and compared with other books such as Wat...

Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as lower-upper-middle class" and "They owned no propert...

fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

freedom for the sake of wealth and power. As mentioned, many see this work as a novel that encourages true socialist societies. ...

satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...

through a symbolic manner, as it involves language. He notes, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a g...

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

the exchange of information as well as a press that is free to investigate, and even criticize, its government. These freedoms are...

judgment. George Orwells later works such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four were known as some of his more famous tex...

Orwell dao.htm). In "Road to Wigan Pier" we are presented with a much more specific culture it would seem, the culture of miner...

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

instead, have served to almost break mens spirits. He seems to have been illustrating the immense danger a political system could ...

the animals and they all break out, running to the house where the food is kept. Mr. Jones discovers what has happened and he trie...

In five pages this paper examines social revolution as depicted in this novel and film. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograp...

fair and easy (yet deceitful) life of communism. How does George Orwell relate all of this to animals, however? As George Orwe...

in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...

the basis for the stereotype of his day and age. And those who tend to deviate from this norm are assumed to be unmanly. These typ...

conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

he was concerned with. And, the issues he was concerned with came largely from personal experience with wars and turmoil. In man...

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

but Smith utilizes it in a warped and disturbed fashion, making it a weapon against the totalitarian government rather than an act...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

is aimed at supporting particular policy themes that will emerge and where emerging from the political arena. It appears th...