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George Orwell
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George Orwell
- Eric Arthur Blair
- 1903-1950
- Born in British India
- British
Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927
- Outspoken
author (social injustice)
Novels
Influence
Animal 1984
Farm
- cold war
- Big Brother
- Thought Police
- newspeak
- doublethink
- thoughtcrime.
Imperial Burma
George Orwell
" Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. " (1984)
Indian Imperial Police in Burma
Burma (modern day Myanmar)
Burmese Prisoners on a Treadmill (1890)
" All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. " (Animal Farm)
"A Hanging" (1931)
Britain conquered Burma over 62 years (1824–86), during which three Anglo-Burmese Wars were fought, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Britain administered Burma as an Indian province until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing colony. Burma attained independence in 1948.
" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms..."