Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, and George Orwell. First off, throughout numerous decades, George Orwell has been known for his first class ideas. Since the mid 1940's, George Orwell has been considered one of the world's premier essayists because of his revolutionary ideas about future society (Blair 2594). ... George Orwell was one of the most renowned thinkers of the twentieth century. ... According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, "It is not hard to see the connection between the nightmare of Poe's life and his work. ...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell, is one of the most effective and inspirational novels of the century. ... Orwell counterpoints the future by showing that an awareness of the past provides for an understanding of the present. ... George Orwell once wrote about his novel, "I don't believe this type of society I describe will arrive, but I believe something resembling it could arrive." ... According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, capitulation can be defined as "the act of surrendering or giving up"(Zehr 419). ... Orwell's novel must have had some effect on re...

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George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. ... George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."... Orwell, in Animal Farm portrays this nature by parodying events in real history. ... Orwell, George. ... Orwell: The Authorised Biography. ...

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The Author: George Orwell Pictures Contents Biography George Orwell (1903-1950) Orwell was born Eric Hugh Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, an area in eastern India only about three hundred miles from Burma, where Orwell was to serve twenty years later as a British civil servant. ... In this year, 1945, Orwell's wife died as the result of a minor operation. ... On January 21, 1950, as he was about to leave for a sanitarium in Switzerland, he had a tubercular hemmorhage and died. 1984 By George Orwell 1984 by George Orwel is a dramatic nov... 1984 By George Orwell ...

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The year 1984 may have past, but George Orwell's story described a plausible future scenario when it was published for the first time in 1949 and it may still come true in a not too distant future. ... In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. ... There had been a number of precedents set, such as the works of H.G.Wells (for example The Story Of The Days to Come, When The Sleeper Awakes and The Time Machine), We by Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924), which was the novel that in turn inspired both Huxley and Orwell,...

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In contemporary times, much criticism has been placed upon Rudyard Kipling for his support of British Imperialism; George Orwell went so far as to call him the "prophet of British Imperialism during its expansionist phase." ...

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