The lesson to be learned from George Orwell's 1984 is that an "ideal" of having a Utopian society will never really work. George Orwell may have written 1984, in order to show us that every society has it's ups and downs and that no matter how hard you work to keep the society perfect there will always be flaws. ... This is far from the life that the people lived in 1984. ... There were hisses among the audience" (Orwell, 13.) ... George Orwell tried to teach his readers a very important lesson, that a Utopian society will never work. ...

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These are the challenges that Winston faces in George Orwell's classic novel, "Animal Farm." Orwell's remarkable international reputation is due to his two novels Animal Farm and 1984. ... "April 4th, 1984. ... To begin with he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. ... By combining motifs, imagery and characters George Orwell creates the perfect totalitarianism novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...

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Conformity means giving in to group pressures. Everyone is a a member of one group or another and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. Fear of humiliation can lead to conformity. People agree with others because they fear being ridiculed, or being isolated from the gro...

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("Orwell- 2) The book was published as, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933 by the House of Gollancz. Eric Blair was now officially known in the world as George Orwell. ... In 1943 he began to write Animal Farm, and the next year Orwell and his wife adopted a son. ... In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984. ... ("Orwell-2) Eric Blair died in January 1950 of a tuberculosis hemorrhage, having just finished 1984. ...

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