GEORGE ORWELL

Eric Arthur Blair
1. Bengal(India) 1903 - England 1950
  1. Educated at Eton
    1. Britain's imperial police force in India
      1. Burmese Days (1934)
Modernist writer
1. Works
  1. Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
    1. Social experiment
    2. Cleryman's Daughter (1935)
      1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
        Socialist beliefs
        Homage to Catalonia (1937)
        Spanish Civil War
        Animal Farm (1945)
        Satire of Russian Revolution
  2. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1. Totalitarian world
      1. Oceania, Eurosia, Eastasia
        Big Brother
        Brainwashing
        Newspeak
        Doublethink
        contradiction in terms
        Love is Hate
        War is Peace
        Freedom is Slavery
        Room 101
        War is artificial to keep people in a state of subjection
    2. Main characters
      1. Winston Smith
Socialist opinions
1. Against snobbish education

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