1. George Orwell's Novel 1984
Interestingly, these events and philosophies also influenced George Orwell, a onetime English Socialist, who wrote the novel 1984. ... George Orwell's 1984 uses the characterization of Winston Smith in a way that demonstrates the validity of Arendt's thesis that the destruction of individuals by the totalitarian state takes place in three stages: the juridical, the moral, and the metaphysical. ... Orwell's work exemplifies Arendt's thesis, as according to critic Martin Kessler, "It [1984] is merely the twentieth-century totalitarian state made absolute by carrying th...
("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. ...
Hundreds of other persons faced accusations of witchcraft and dozens more languished in jail without trials. 1984 is about Winston Smith who lived in London which was a part of the country Oceania. ... The book was written partly in third person, and partly in first person seen through the main character's eyes The extract from the Novel 1984 is centered on where Winston's brutal torture begins. ... Orwell's use of the simile "like a baby" gives the readers the ability to imagine the situation there and then where someone in need of protection, caring, and love holds onto...