Quotes of George Orwell are well known to all fans of his work and the dystopian genre. His cult novel "1984" is still popular, and many of the things and events described in it remain relevant in our days, decades after they were described by English science fiction.
Writer Biography
The main uniqueness of his work is that George Orwell's quotes do not lose their relevance over the years. The author himself was born in 1903 in an English colony in India. His father was a British intelligence officer who was responsible for controlling the storage and transportation of opium to China.
The future prose writer received his primary education in Eastbourne. In 1921 he graduated from Eton College. He served in the colonial police in Burma, having arrived in the UK, interrupted by casual work. He began to write prose and journalism.
His first notable success was the novel "Pounds of dashing in Paris and London", which is based on autobiographical material. Then he began to be published under the pseudonym George Orwell, his real name is Eric Arthur Blair.
He participated in the Civil War in Spain, returned from the front as a staunch opponent of Stalinism, and became a member of the Independent Labor Party.
In 1938, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Due to an ailment, the writer was not taken into the army during the Second World War. He could not defeat this disease, having died in London in 1950.
"Days in Burma"
In 1934, Orwell published his first novel. It is called Days in Burma and is based on autobiographical material when the author himself lived and worked in this country.
The hero of our article served in the colonial police of Burma from 1922 to 1927. Later, on the same material, he writes the stories "How I shot an elephant" and "Execution by hanging." The time described is the last days of British colonialism in Burma, which was ruled from Delhi.
"Long live the ficus!"
In 1936, Orwell wrote a critical and social novel under the provocative title, "Long Live the Ficus!" In it, events unfold two years earlier, the main character Gordon Comstock decides to abandon the usual average life, forgets about money, social status.
The ficus that stands on the window of every respectable family becomes a symbol of the life of the layman. True, everything has to be changed due to the planned replenishment in the Comstock family. The protagonist understands that it is not so easy to resist society, even resigned to this mediocre home flower.
"Barnyard"
The fairy tale "Farmyard", written in 1945, contains perhaps the most famous quote from George Orwell.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
It reflects the main meaning of this work, which tells about the evolution of animals that are expelled from the farmyard. Events range from unlimited freedom to the establishment of a dictatorship under the rule of the pig of Napoleon.
In his story Animal Farm, George Orwell depicts the degeneration and degeneration of revolutionary programs and principles, demonstrating the transition from the utopian idea of universal equality to totalitarianism and dictatorship. In fact, this work is an allegorical parable on the revolution in Russia in 1917 and the events that followed.
From quotes from George Orwell's Animal Farm, you can evaluate how critically he assesses events in the Soviet Union.
He will come, he will come - a world of great purity. And there will be no people at all, there will only be cattle.
Interestingly, the story itself was written from the end of 1943 to the beginning of 1944, when the USSR was an ally of Great Britain in the struggle against Nazi Germany. The book did not see the light until August 45th.
"1984"
Orwell’s most famous novel is 1984. He published it a year before his death, describing the anti-utopian world of the future, in which the protagonist works in the so-called Ministry of Truth, lives in a world that is completely subordinate to party discipline in everything. His main task is to rewrite history under that truth, which at this moment is beneficial to the government and the powers that be.
One who rules the past rules the future. He who rules the present rules the past.
Moreover, he himself does not share the slogans that are repeated at every step. Some of them at first glance sound reckless and illogical, but in reality they are similar to many statements of modern politicians so far.
For example, it is known that everyone is guided by the principles of:
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is power.
Winston Smith begins to keep a diary, trying to sort out his own thoughts. After all, people have to pretend to be a supporter of party ideals. One day he meets a colleague Julia, who confesses his love to him. Smith is aware that she watched him, but was unable to overcome the temptation. They begin to meet regularly and even decide to join an underground fraternity.
Freedom is an opportunity to say that twice two is four. If this is allowed, then everything else follows from here.
When they are arrested, it turns out that all this time they were surrounded by secret police officers. They are subjected to mental and physical torment, forcing them to renounce everything, even love, forcing them to sincerely love the party and Big Brother. The novel instantly went into quotes. George Orwell became one of the most popular English writers. Many statements, like no others, reflect the situation that is taking shape even in modern society.