George Orwell Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

‘The Hanging’ (1931)

‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1936)

‘Why I Write’ (1946)

Having read these three essays by Orwell and noting the dates they were published, I would have to say that what is important to Orwell does change to a certain extent, but some important things remain constant. The main thing that changes is his political awareness. In ‘Why I Write’ he states that.

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.

He makes clear that his experiences as a police officer in Burma and his subsequent experiences of ...

Assignment 2

Question 1
In “Brideshead Revisited”, the character Rex Mottram is for the larger part of the story in a relationship with Julia. Rex appears to very deeply in love with Julia and is also a great friend to other characters including Sebastian, Boy and Charles, who he, for example, helps with their jail situation. He plans to marry Julia and in fact does so, but he maintains an illicit affair with Brenda. Julia confronts him, but he cannot understand why she is so upset. Julia is a devout Christian and tries to put a stop to Rex antics including fooling around, but ...

Anyone with a smattering of literary knowledge will perceive Apple’s ‘1984’ advert for their Macintosh computer, as simply a clever play on words – a play on an iconic image: the individual smashing the oppressor. However, it runs far deeper than that. The world of Dystopian literature is often based on very real human fears as a reaction to war, and it was given new life when the Nazis marched across Europe, thus invoking an image of tyranny, control and fear. The terror that gripped Europe during World War Two, meant that these three things because a very near-reality for millions of people and ...

There are a number of parallels that can be drawn between George Orwell’s 1984 and The Circle by David Eggers, the most explicit of which is the theme of being constantly watched and observed. If Orwell used the idea of ‘Big Brother’ as the ever-present government watchdog, Eggers created ‘The Circle’, the only tech giant in the world to own a portal that records every instance of every individual’s online presence and interactions. Likened to how to how a shark stalks and hunts its prey at various points in the text, The Circle uses its technology and ...

Totalitarian political system is based on the unlimited authority and power to ‘rule’ every dimension of the social and even private life of the individuals, which is in direct contrast of democracy. Such governments maintain their rule by regulating a comprehensive propaganda campaign that is communicated through the television channels and print controlled by the state. Public at large is the major party that has to go through the tyrannical control of the state over economy, media, surveillance, and freedom of speech and thought.
The use of terror is common and widespread in totalitarian states, to keep the opinion ...

Microbiology could be etymologically defined as the study of small living things invisible to the naked eye (Hogg, 2013). The progress of microbiology has been tied to the technology available at each time in history. Humans were not even aware of the existence of microorganisms until about 350 years ago, when Anton van Leeuwenhoek observed what he described as ‘animalcules’ through a rudimentary microscope he invented himself (Hogg, 2013). Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and other scientists in the microbiology field relied on the technologies available at their time to face the challenges that arose to them.
At the end ...