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...

Irony is a literary term that has three subcategories and is commonly used in writing. The three types of irony are dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. In ​1984 ​by George Orwell, all three subcategories of irony are used to highlight the injustice that...

We influence the past as much as the past influences us. The present influences our memories of the past as much as they remain alive in our present. Past and present are two different realities that interwine with each other and their relationship is often...

If a person would think of shooting an elephant in his life and that was not impacted by other individuals, he would settle on a choice, not to do himself. As the human conclusion is essential to us, Orwell demonstrates the authenticity of this thought...

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...