Essays on George Orwell

There are serious political topics that Orwell touches on in ​1984​, and many overlook other themes. He was felt afflicted because of the possibility that future governments would shift toward totalitarianism. There is a sustainable lesson that comes from this literature, it is the lesson...

“We walked out of the gallows yard, past the condemned cells with their waiting prisoners, into the big central yard of the prison… it seemed quite a homely, jolly scene, after the hanging. An enormous relief had come upon us now that the job was...

Since the foundation of America, the question of the morality of the death penalty has plagued American society. Both George Orwell and Truman Capote attempted to address this issue through fictional and non-fictional tales of the gallows. Capote and Orwell wrote to convey their purpose...

Could you imagine what it would be like to watch the body of a person you once knew, swinging by their neck from the gallows? Perhaps, you were the one who was appointed to hang him, or the man awaiting to be hung? Would watching...

Moments that occur so fast that you cannot try to describe what happened, but yet it did. Especially if it’s someone getting hanged due to their actions which George Orwell saw when he was an officer of the prison in Burma. Orwell wrote a story...

A George Orwell, in his famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), drew his themes from is observations of Nazi Germany, and the Communist rise in the Soviet Union and Spain. As a Socialist, one of the writer’s goals was to illuminate the pitfalls of totalitarian control....

War is the conflict caused by conflict between consciousnesses. The cause of these conflicts comes from the individual desires of each human being. When these ambitions contradict each other to a high level of tension, war occurs. Only when two opposing sides exist will the...