"Few novels written in this generation have obtained a popularity as great as that of George Orwell's 1984." George Orwell's popular and powerful novel was not just a figment of his imagination, it was spawned from many experiences from childhood to early adulthood, as well as from events circa World War II. At age eight, he was shipped off to boarding school where he was the only scholarship student among aristocrats. This was Orwell's first taste of dictatorship, of being helpless under the rule of an absolute power. Unlike his classmates, Orwell was unable to afford to go to Oxford or Cambridge and his grades kept him from winning any more scholarships (Scott-Kilvert, 98). Therefore, he decided to join the Imperial Police in Burma, India. He wrote of the experience, "In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people..." (Reed, 3). Orwell hated the police and everything they stood for; he often hated the people he was supposed to help. The events that took place in his life and the rise of Fascism in the early 1930s made Orwell a committed anti-Fascist. Ever serious line of work he wrote as of 1936 was, whether

indirectly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism. (Elements of Lit., 1057)

"Oldspeak" is altogether overthrown, the last link with the history and literature of the past will be broken.

governing in their power (Bryfonski, 1057). The party in Orwell's novel is all-powerful because it is run by a group whose major purpose is to gain and keep power. They crush anybody who tries to commit an independent act. Their methods are harsh and efficient.

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