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<<IN A TIME OF DECEIT TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT.>>

  • He was born in India in 1903.

  • He worked for BBC and for "The Tribune", a socialist-inspired newspaper.

George Orwell

George Orwell

Francisco Franco

  • He also fought in Spain Civil War against Francisco Franco's Nationalists.
  • His major works: "1984" and "Animal Farm".

Political View

Social Democracy Symbol

<<Freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four. Granted that, everything else naturally follows.>>

  • Initially, Orwell called himself an anarchist, and then became a social democrat
  • He was quite critical of the Soviet model and, in general, of all dictatorships.

Anarchism Symbol

  • The British writer wanted to warn his readers about the possible dangers of totalitarianisms.

Napoleon in the novel "Animal Farm"

<<WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE; WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST.>>

Winston Smith in the book film of the same name

  • Winston Smith is an employee of the Outer Party; he work in a dystopian London, in the nation of Oceania.

1984

  • When he meets Julia, he begins to develop different ideas from those proposed by the regime and, for this, he is captured and brainwashed.

<<Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.>>

  • "The Theory And Practice Of Oligarchical Colletivism" is a book signed by the name of Goldstein; it is considered clandestine by the party.

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

  • Winston and Julia only manage to read two chapters of the book before they are caught.

Chapter I - The Ignorance Is Strenght

<<Since the beginning of time there have been three species of people in the world, the High, the Middle and the Low. The purposes of these three groups are completely irreconcilable with each other.>>

  • There has always been three social classes: the High,the Middle and the Low.
  • To mantain power forever, the INGSOC begin to use advanced technologies and systems of persuasion against the rebels.
  • Moreover, the Party adopts continuous rewriting of historical events and uses the practice of Doublethink to fight the Thoughtcrime.

Chapter III - War Is Peace

<<The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.>>

  • The goal of war is not to win, but to make it perpetual so as to create a continuous atmosphere of hysteria.
  • In recent years, however, technology has regressed and is used only as a means to oppress civilians.
  • The Party does not allow mass suicide and remains at the same economic level as the other two states, so that it can shape the reality to its liking.
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