... a short draft, entitled, A Scullions Diary about 10 months later. This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. In despair he asked a friend, ... into one-party states. On his way home, he developed tuberculosis and had to stay in Morocco with the hope that it would pass. There he wrote the book, Homage to Catalonia, describing his experiences in the war and his reactions to the soviet betrayal. Shortly after the Second World W...

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Following the end of World War II, when the world discovered the Nazi concentration camps in Eastern Europe, their exposure brought the revelation that the Nazis had mercilessly ... to maintain its absolute power. Interestingly, these events and philosophies also influenced George Orwell, a onetime English Socialist, who wrote the novel 1984. Orwell, commenting on his work after its 1949 publication, wrote that he sought to emphasize that "totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere" (Orwell, TCLC, 301 ... this definition to include the destruction of interpersonal relati...

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows" (Orwell, 1984, 69) Following the end of World War II, when the world discovered the Nazi concentration camps in Eastern Europe, their exposure brought the revelation that the Nazis had mercilessly slaughtered millions upon millions of innocents. This tragedy transformed human history ... government destroys its citizens in order to maintain its absolute power. Interestingly, these events and philosophies also influenced George Orwell, a onetime English Socialist, who wrote the novel 1984. Orwell,...

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