PPT-George Orwell

19031950 On each landing opposite the lift shaft the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU the caption beneath it ran. “Down with Big Brother.”. George Orwell (1903-1949). George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair.. B. orn in British India in 1903.. He lived in poverty.. Worked as a policeman in Burma and saw cruelty. . Kintanar. Modern Age & George Orwell. The Great War. The Great War is later known as World War I happened in 1914-1918.. Great Britain allied itself with France and Russia against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary.. by George Orwell. Seminar. In your groups, discuss your first thoughts after reading the story, using the questions on the worksheet to get you started.. Compare your answers on the worksheet – it’s OK if you have different interpretations!. What is is……. What it is NOT…. First, let’s look at what analysis is NOT:. --paraphrasing. --simple identification of example. --summary of selection. Talking to someone about what Winston knows about Big Brother is a huge risk especially . grasped. . that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. .”. “In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by . large . numbers of . people . – the only time in my life . that . I have been important . Discuss what . you already . know (if anything) about:. Marrakech. George Orwell. George Orwell. Born Eric Blair (George Orwell was his pen-name) in a British colony in India. Moved to England aged 1 and went on to study at Eton. A character with conflicting and often contradictory traits, motivations, and/or desires.. Complex characters . possess. . these qualities . simultaneously. .. Not necessarily dynamic.. For example…. in Nineteen. . Eighty-Four. . . “. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. Shelby . Crum. 11 November 2015. PSC 394-001. Political Dissent. The . expression of discontent or resistance to those in power or the policies they put in . place. Opposition to systematic oppression or corruption. Born Eric Arthur Blair of a British colonial civil servant in India. Went to school in England. Once out of school he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He resigned from the police force in 1927 to become a writer. Jared Taylor. Sarah Awadalla. Kerry Dezsi. Remy Rose Fababe. George Orwell. Real name is Eric Arthur Blair.. Most famous novels are Animal Farm and 1984.. His main concerns were Imperialism, Fascism, and Communism. . George Orwell - Biography. Eric Arthur Blair. (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name . George Orwell. , was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language.. English Literature in the second half of the twentieth century „…the impotence of capitalist government in the face of Fascism combined with economic dislocation to turn the majority of young intellectuals (and not only intellectuals) in the 1930s to the political left. The 1930s were the so-called red decade, because only the left seemed to offer any solution in various forms of socialism, communism, and left liberalism.” Norton Who. . was. George Orwell?. 1903-1950. Great . Britain. Eric Arthur Blair. The. most . valuable. . novels. : . The Animal Farm. 1984. 1984 . Things you need to know. Dystopian novel. Written in 1949.