When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: george orwell political orthodoxy

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. George Orwell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.

  3. Politics and the English Language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English...

    Orwell chooses five passages of text which "illustrate various of the mental vices from which we now suffer." The samples are: by Harold Laski ("five negatives in 53 words"), Lancelot Hogben (mixed metaphors), an essay by Paul Goodman [2] on psychology in the July 1945 issue of Politics ("simply meaningless"), a communist pamphlet ("an accumulation of stale phrases") and a reader's letter in ...

  4. The Prevention of Literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prevention_of_Literature

    The Prevention of Literature" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. The essay is concerned with freedom of thought and expression, particularly in an environment where the prevailing orthodoxy in left-wing intellectual circles is in favour of the communism of the Soviet Union.

  5. Newspeak - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

    In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate.To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking.

  6. 85 George Orwell Quotes About Truth, Politics and Power

    www.aol.com/85-george-orwell-quotes-truth...

    85 George Orwell Quotes About Truth, Politics and Power. Morgan McMurrin. July 20, 2024 at 8:30 AM. If you’re not familiar with George Orwell, he was a literary rebel with a cause! Born Eric ...

  7. Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of...

    George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]

  8. What George Orwell got right in '1984' - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/george-orwell-got-1984...

    There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...

  9. Thought Police - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police

    In the early twentieth century, before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Empire of Japan (1868–1947), in 1911, established the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu ('Special Higher Police'), a political police force also known as Shisō Keisatsu, the Thought Police, who investigated and controlled native political groups whose ideologies were considered a threat to the public order of the ...