English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: George Orwell

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

Document Summary

Eric blair was his real name: animal farm (1945, (politics of the english language) written between these two works, 1984 (1949) Newspeak ( ignorance is strength , freedom is slavery : full of fine sounding phrases. Linguistically appealing: these slogans are planted into the minds of characters in 1984 because they are so. One of the most famous essays of the 20th century. This essay is just as relevant in modern day as it was in its time. The german language is contaminated by nazism: words that are part of normal daily conversation can easily be related back to the period of nazism in germany. 1946 the beginning of the cold war: tension between stability and individual rights. The essay attempts to negotiate a balance between those two streams: what can we do as a group to address these issues, observation, diagnosing, and addressing issues in language, transformation into differently abled people.