Orwell said in an essay titled Why I write : “It is my purpose to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” How far does Orwell achieve this in 1984 ?

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10/10/2006

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Table of Contents Orwell said in an essay titled Why I write : “It is my purpose to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.”
How far does Orwell achieve this in 1984 ? Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The main characters of 1984
  3. The most political aspects of the book
  4. The destruction of the links between people
  5. Orwell's greatest achievement
  6. Conclusion
  7. Bibliography

Abstract

Let us remember that, at the end of 1936, orwell fought for the Republicans (against Franco) in Spain, where he was wounded. We know that orwell's 1984 (published in 1949) was given this title because the novel was written in 1948, just after the end of the Second World War and the fall of Hitler's Nazi regime. At that time, Stalin's U.S.S.R. still deported the enemies of the Party to gulags and the Cold War between this country and the United States of America had just begun. U.S.S.R would remain the most totalitarian regime till Stalin's death in 1953.

As orwell said, 'every line of serious work that [he has] written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism'.
Considering those facts, how could we doubt that orwell's novel 1984 - as well as his previous political allegory Animal farm - is both a literary masterpiece and a treatise on politics and totalitarianism?

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