GeorgeOrwell
Pre-reading
GeorgeOrwell (1903-1950) , bothintheBritishpressandinbookssuchasHomagetoCatalonia, describinghisactivitiesduringtheSpanishCivilWar, andDownandOutinParisandLondon, , , awarenessofsocialinjustice, oppositiontototalitarianism, , poetry, fiction, -fictionworks, includingTheRoadtoWiganPier, documentinghisexperienceofworkingclasslifeinthenorthofEngland, arewidelyacclaimed, asarehisessaysonpolitics, literature, language, andculture.
WhentheSpanishcivilwarbrokeoutin1936, OrwellwantedtofightfortheSpanishgovernmentagainstFranciscoFranco’, hewasshotinthethroatby “aFascistsniper”.InBarcelonahejoinedtheanti-StalinistSpanishTrotskyists’Workers’ , manyofOrwell’sfriendswerearrested, shot, ordisappeared.Hebarelyescapedalivein1937.
Hisinfluencestillworksonpopularandpoliticalculture, andthetermOrwellian —descriptiveoftotalitarianorauthoritariansocialpractices — hasenteredthelanguagetogetherwithmanyofhisneologisms, forinstance, coldwar, BigBrother, ThoughtPolice, Room101, memoryhole, doublethink, etc.
PromptsforYourReading
“Believenothing, ornexttonothing, ofwhatyoureadaboutinternalaffairsontheGovernmentside”?
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: “Thereis, forinstance, nosuchthingas‘science’.Thereisonly ‘Germanscience’‘Jewishscience’, etc.”?
“twosafeguards” doinParagraph6?
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’sattitudetowardstheactsofthosepowerfulcountriesconcerningthewar?
[1] ThestruggleforpowerbetweentheSpanishRepublicanpartiesisanunhappy, : believenothing, ornexttonothing, , fromwhateversource, partypropaganda — thatistosay, , andtookit, .
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