Essays on George Orwell

“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...

Sitting on my flax linen grey couch, I opened 1984. The book I am burdened to read. Sigh, “It’s going to be just like all the other dystopian novels I’ve read,” I thought. People joining a pact, living underground, and robots ruling the world. After...

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Nineteen eighty-four (1984 ) is a Dystopia story – what could be regarded as the worst possible life,a political satire novel written by George Orwell. The story is...

Literature has seen some of the most tyrannical characters of all time. The exploration of “totalitarian mindsets has been examined since the writing of Shakespeare’s powerful villains. Subsequently, both H.G Well’s “The War of the Worlds” and George Orwell’s “1984” present the influences power can...

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...