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Niccolo Machiavelli George Orwell
1,195 wordsMy focus is upon a piece by Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian prince from the renaissance period who writes "The Morals of a Prince", and in an opposite vein, an essay by George Orwell, an English author and enemy of totalitarianism whose essay is "Politics and the English Language." Within these essays I have found a similarity in which Orwell illustrates that 'political writing becomes the defense of the indefensible, most political writing is bad, where it is not the author is usually a rebel w...
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Six Rules To Successful Writing
714 wordsOrwell's six rules to successful writing What questions does an author ask himself when he sits down to write? George Orwell's views on politics and the English language explains what should be going through your mind as you write. You should be thinking six questions as you write and when you finish and read it over you should be editing with six more questions in order to be successful. Orwell follows his own rules closely as seen in 1984. These rules have made him a successful writer in our t...
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Orwell Shooting An Elephant
707 wordsIn George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant, Orwell is faced with a terrible decision. By taking the life of the elephant which so wrongly took the life of the Indian, the killing was then justified in Orwell's mind. He was taking a stand for the lower man, which in his eyes represented himself, and showing an overwhelming power over the elephant, or British Empire. This view will always win the heart of the reader. The reader can feel sympathy towards Orwell rather than hate him for taking another ...
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Oliver Twist Evil Deeds
769 wordsIago is the arch atypical villain; this point stands true only when compared to more modern literature. In essence, Iago's persona and the evil that drives him is not a new concept to literature. However, Iago's behavior and plotting can be considered a literary archetype when applied to more contemporary villains. Using the word contemporary loosely, villains from Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and from the movie Ghost will be compared to behav...
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Animals Are Equal Seven Commandments
776 wordsThrough Animal Farm Orwell teaches us that no one in a position of power can remain true to their original cause, Discuss. George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm was written to teach people a very important lesson. That few people who have an opportunity to take control and gain power will stay true to their original aims and beliefs. Animal Farm tells a tragic story that aims to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy. The story takes place on Manor Fa...
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Organized Religion Animal Farm
1,025 wordsReligion is said to be the opiate of the masses, and it is definitely a point of interest in George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm. In it, Orwell pointedly attacks religion in general and Christianity in particular through the use of a well placed symbolic bird by the name of Moses. Orwell's stance is rather apparent as Moses darts about the farm scene conveying the duality of Christianity quite superbly. At the first mention of the raven Moses, one immediately gets the impression that he sta...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Matter Of Fact
1,055 wordster> The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. (Emmanuel Goldstein in The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, ch. 3). Discuss with respect to George Orwell's vision of society in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's society displays a threatening projection of a totalitarian system into the future. Indeed it is a regime very similar to the tyrannies of the 20 th ce...
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George Orwell Animal Farm Symbolizing Totalitarianism
311 wordsTotalitarianism a type of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. This form of tyranny was a 20 th -century development that was instituted to serve the goal of transforming society according to socialist principals. All previous political institutions and constitutions were relinquished and replaced by new ones. This thought of government was meant to make everyone equal and ironically strips everyone of his or her basic rights. Totalitarianism is expres...
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Disguised Warning Signs In Animal Farm
722 wordsOn roads there are signs for what is coming up ahead. Life, unfortunately, does not give out warning signs as easily. Author, George Orwell, wrote Animal Farm and in his book Orwell discreetly gives out warning signs on life and what to expect of people. Using animals on a farm, Orwell tells about an unstable fight for power. Hidden warnings found in the book depend on the reader. Orwell mainly pushes the points of education is a necessity of life, there is no peace when striving for power, and ...
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Control The Future Controls The Past
591 wordsPsychological control is a major theme occurring in 1984 and Orwell proves this theme is possible by giving examples of how a totalitarian government could gain psychological control using their power to control history and technology. George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning to people of what might come in the future if people were not careful. At the time Orwell was writing the book, the Cold War had not yet escalated, and many American intellectuals supported communism. Orwell demonstrated his t...
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Working Class Thought Police
1,007 words... him. In The Immorality Of Capitalism, Marx describes the inevitable collapse of capitalism and the united revolution of the working class proletariat. The proletariat working class in Marx's philosophy are represented by the proles of 1984. Although the proles make up 80 % of the population, they are barely mentioned in the novel. The question remains, why did Orwell's proles not rise up as they should have according to Marx? The reader gets the impression that the proles are really seen as ...
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People Of Oceania One Of The Main
1,495 words... online in Iraq. All Iraqi newspapers are state-controlled and part of the INA. Some of these include: Al-Thawra, Al-Jumhuriya, Baby and the English-language Iraq Daily. " (web) The people of Iraq were subject to the same kind of government fraudulence as the people of Oceania in 1984. Both governments are alike controlling all facets of the news. The government and it's corrupted behavior seeps far beyond recognition and into a pool of deception. It is evident that there is corruption that g...
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Kill The Elephant Imperial Policeman Orwell
897 wordsGeorge Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" gives remarkable insight into the human psyche. The essay presents a powerful theme of inner conflict. Orwell feels strong inner conflict between what he believes as a human being, and what he believes and should do as an imperial police officer. The author is amazingly effective in illustrating this conflict by providing specific examples of contradictory feelings, by providing an anecdote that exemplified his feelings about his situation, and by usi...
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Government Agencies Black Men
1,375 wordsIn todays world you do not have to look very far to see things that very well could have come out of George Orwell's novel 1984. The world is globalizing at an exponential rate compared to years past. With the advent and widespread use of the Internet and inter-continental travel the need for heightened security has grown tremendously. However, how best should our societies deal with this need? Alarmingly, it would seem that the people with whom we have entrusted the authority to make such decis...
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Control Of The Situation Shooting The Elephant Fear
624 wordsTHOUGHTS AND MUSINGS ON SHOOTING THE ELEPHANT George Orwell's story Shooting an Elephant is a simple story but it is replete with a lot of lessons on abiding with ones principles, going with the majority and also about fear. The man in the story reveals his principles and his character with the way he behaves and reacts as the story unfolds. Readers see that early on in the story, that there is hatred among the people in terms of how they see this police officer. We see this from the way the peo...
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Paris And London George Orwell
1,608 wordsEric Arthur Blair (later George Orwell) was born in a small village near the border of Nepal. At that time India was part of the British Empire, and Blair's father, Richard, held a post as an agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair, was about eighteen years younger than his father. His family was described by some as being lower-upper-middle-class. They owned no land or any extensive investments. At the age of thirteen, Eric won a scholarship to Wel...
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World War Ii Twentieth Century
915 wordsGeorge Orwell was not only a writer, but also an important political reformer. Orwell was born in India in 1903. He considered his family a lower-middle class family. He said this because his family was a part of the middle class, but had little money. His father worked for the British government and was able to be apart of the middle class without money. Orwell lived in Britain and went to boarding school there on scholarships. He was the poorest student among many wealthy children. Orwell felt...
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Secret Police Animal Farm
399 wordsOrwell's Animal Farm: Summary of Characters Stalin's five-year plan was made to upgrade Russia and bring it current with the rest of the world within a five-year period. In Orwell's book Animal Farm, Napoleon Snowball thinks up the idea of constructing a windmill which looks like it is designed to bring the farm up to current technology. In both cases, Stalin and Napoleon come off trying to sell their ideas with the impression that it is to better the lives of the people and the animals of the f...
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Orwell George Orwell
482 wordsIf George Orwell, author of? Politics and the English Language? read Tom Verducci's? essay? Three Dimensional? , he would argue with Tom Verdicci's? style. Tom Verducci breaks several of Orwell? s rules. The rules broken are; (1) Never use a long word where a short one will do; (2) Never use a foreign phrase, scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. The first rule broken is? Never use a long word where a short one will do. ? Verducci tends to puzzle th...
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Ahead Of His Time Afraid Of Death
1,407 words2 / 19 / 00 Essay 2 Eng. Death Amir Alan 2 / 19 / 00 Essay 2 Eng. 100 Better Death has always been a grim subject for most people only because it hasn? t been dealt with. For some, death is a very natural and beautiful thing. A time to come together and celebrate the life lived by the newly deceased. After reading Orwell? s? A Hanging, ? Thomas? ? On Natural Death, ? and Robinson? s? Richard Corey, ? several similarities stand out. Death is an inevitable act so it is a waste of effort to stress ...
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