English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spritzer, Epidemiology, George Orwell

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Best known for animal farm (1945) and 1984 (1949) this essay was published in 1946, between these two novels. Central to the essay is the abuse pf power by tyrannical groups and the manipulation of language. If you can control language you can control the way people think. Power points allow speakers to pretend they are giving a real talk and audiences to pretend that they are listening [they are] a prankism conspiracy against substance and thought. Chamberlain arrived back from munich w piece of paper the non-aggression pact with adolf. Hitler he says i bring peace in our time he"s actually made a pact with the devil and sold out his allies. Orwell uses in our time twice in the essay. Essay never lost its relevance very relevant to today. Can"t get rid of politics all issues are political issues pg.