George Orwell's Story 1984
~Born in Motihari, India on June 25, 1903
~Birth name was Eric Arthur Blair
~Parents were members of the Indian Civil Service
~Educated at Eton College in England
~1922 he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma
~Best known books are Animal Farm and 1984
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Published in 1984 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is George Orwell's dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying and based on the work of the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, it is a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning.
Some critics have related Winston Smith's sufferings to those Orwell underwent at preparatory school, experiences he wrote about just before 1984. Orwell maintained that the book was written with the explicit intention "to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they should strive after."
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Orwellian describes a situation or idea based on the ideas of George Orwell; particularly his political novel 1984. It usually refers to one of the following:
        -Efforts to monitor peoples social              behavior
        -A dystopian future
        -Political doublethink
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them...
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