... , however, is a more risky endeavor. George Orwell has dared to do exactly this in his essay "Politics and the English Language". More surprising than the fact that Orwell took on this challenge is the striking passion and clarity with which he speaks. Orwell is very deliberate and careful with the diction ... the likes of Alexander Pope and Matthew Arnold. These authors also spoke out against ongoing trends in society that they found disagreeable much the way Orwell does. The parallels do not end there. Matthew Arnold wrote in a similar fashion about his feelings regarding societal tren...

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... designed a utopian Republic, while Karl Marx radically changed the face of the earth by offering a secular state that is supposed to be sufficient for all. In more contemporary literature pieces, George Orwell gave us a view of what a utopia gone bad might look like. In Aldous Huxley's version of utopia, we see that no matter how wonderful everything is on the outside, there ... . This is why a world that forces humans to be happy, is not a utopia, and any society pursuing utopia in this manner is doomed to fail. George Orwell did not even try to sugarcoat anything in his book, 1984. Wri...

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Brave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwells's Nineteen Eighty-four are the most influential futuristic novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. Winston Smith (protagonist of 1984) is forced to love Big Brother by the starving rats in room 101. In Aldous Huxley's satire the World State's motto ... people alive today owe the margin between barely adequate nutrition and starvation to high agricultural technology" (41). This new technology multiplied the world's grain harvest 2.6 times between the y...

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... . An example of this was the attempt to abolish the Communist party in Australia following World War 2. This attempt failed as it was in violation of the Rule of Law. George Williams stated: "Maximum security at the cost of living in an authoritarian state is not something Australians would, or should, accept." Imprisonment without trial is in violation of the Rule ... a great deal of power to a specific arm of government; "In its original form, the Bill would not be out of place in former dictatorships such as General Pinochet's Chile." George Orwell's novel 1984, depicts such a society...

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... talks about a society being blind and fooled by the authorities. The last line (and also title) sounds like "Big Brother", an authority first described in the George Orwell's book called "1984", which consists on fooling society into thinking they are good the way the system works. In the poem, humans are no longer powerful, and it sounds like we ... ...

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... the ability to sway crowds, topple governments or educate the misguided. In Nazi Germany, Hitler seized power solely with words, taking advantage of a vulnerable situation in a vulnerable country. George Orwell states in his novel 1984 "But if thought corrupts language language can also corrupt thought" this quote demonstrates the power of words. In the right hands language can teach but in ... ...

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... become more intelligent then us, they may use the same system of thought to decide they want us to become their servants and the roles would then switch. George Orwell is an author that wrote 1984, a novel setting forth his fears of an intrusively bureaucratized state of the future. , "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ... ...

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