... he wrote Down and Out in Paris and London, because of his experience with poverty he succeeded his potrail of the poor. After the Spanish war Orwell's writing changed but not as much as he thought, he said, "In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely ... descriptive bodes, and might have remained almost unaware of my 2 Political loyalties." Without the experience of the Spanish Civil war, Orwell wouldn't have written Animal Farm and 1984. The book Animal Farm, asked the question why did the Russian Revolution fall? It shows the ... from the telescreen. During the exercise,...

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... . The telescreen could also send out messages like a television. Music for the most part was often played. News reports were broadcasted for everyone to hear. Things such as how the war was going or if a food ration was increasing or decreasing was common as well. At one point in the novel, Winston was watching the news reports and observed that: "It ... appeared that there had been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, the ration was reduced to twenty grams a week" (51). The government was able to t...

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