preview

Analysis Of George Orwell 's ' The Black Middle Class '

Decent Essays

About the Author  George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (born June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India- died January 21, 1950, London, England).  Studied as a scholarship student in the most prestigious boarding schools in England.  Famously described his family as “lower-upper-middle class”, he never quite fit in and he felt oppressed by the dictatorial control exercised over the students’ lives at the schools he attended.  After graduating from Eton, Orwell decided to work as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma.  He ended up hating his duties in Burma, as he was required to enforce strict laws of a political regime he despised.  As an opponent of totalitarianism, he also served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish civil war.  In Spain, Germany and the Soviet Union, Orwell has witnessed the danger of absolute political authority in an age of advanced technology.  1984 is of negative utopian or dystopian genre.  In 1949, at the dawn of the nuclear age and before the television had become a fixture in the family home, Orwell’s vision of a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitored ceaselessly by means of the telescreen seemed terrifyingly possible.  1984 remains an important novel as it sounds the alarm against the abusive nature of authoritarian governments but also for its penetrating analysis of the psychology of power and the ways that manipulations of language can be used as mechanisms of control. Satire  The novel

Get Access