The characters are animals and different groups of Soviet society are represented by the classes of animals, eg. The story is told using the techniques of allegorical fiction. are firmly with us and just what Orwell predicted.Īnimal Farm is a short novel that depicts the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the beginning of the Stalin era. Indeed, such things as surveillance cameras that intrude on every aspect of life, even in the most advanced democracies, monitoring of emails, interactive television, the mushrooming of obfuscatory language in politics, such as ‘alternative facts,’ ‘fake news,’ etc. Nineteen Eighty-Four has long stood and still stands, as a warning about the threat to democracy by a strong tendency towards authoritarianism by ‘strong man’ leaders. Some other newspeak words are: joycamp (forced labour camp) goodthink (correct thinking) oldthink (thought that disregards the revolution) prolefeed (the endless stream of television propaganda). Big Brother, thought police, Room 101, thoughtcrime, doublethink. Some of the words and phrases he invented have entered into the English language and are used routinely, eg. The language Orwell used in writing this novel contains many words and phrases which he employed to create the dystopian world of the novel. Governments, since the book came out, have often been warned by their critics of bringing the country closer to nineteen eighty four, with the increase of such things as censorship and camera surveillance. In the novel people have become dehumanised, governed by an unseen administration that controls them with a fast-growing technology.
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) tells the story of living as a tramp in those two rich cities The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a close observation of the working class in the north of England and Homage to Catalonia (1938) is an account of his activities in the Spanish Civil War.Ī keen observer of the trends of his time Orwell forged his two great novels from those observations and, particularly in the case of Nineteen Eighty Four he emerged as a kind of prophet, warning society about where it seemed to be heading. Three of Orwell’s non-fiction collections are classics of journalism. Indeed, many of George Orwell’s quotes from his works have become commonly known, and used as new English language phrases. He was famous in all those areas, but will be particularly remembered for two of his novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four, both among the most significant works of literature of the twentieth century and two of the most influential. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, a twentieth century writer, equally at home with journalism, essays, novels, literary criticism and social commentary. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale
This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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