One of the Most Impactful Authors of the 20th Century “If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” - George Orwell. George Orwell’s life began at the start of the twentieth century. World War 1 started in 1914 and lasted until 1918, a long and bloody war that killed millions. The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939, and greatly impacted Orwell, as he fought in the war himself fighting against the nationalists. Directly after the Spanish Civil
Honors Essay As General George Patton, Jr. said, “Better to fight for something that to live for nothing.” The Book Thief, Night, and Animal Farm are all glorious books that display the fight for freedom, family, and love. The connections between characters, experiences, and actions make these books presented in a way that expresses an intense sentiment for the atrocity described. These stories depict WWII in a way that is realistic and abstract, all a written masterpiece. First, in the book Animal
context of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, originally published in 1945. An allegorical novella and a work of political satire that is more critical of totalitarianism regimes than it is of ideologies such as communism, it has a plot which is a figurative representation of real life events of the Russian Revolution. As these events unfold, the Tsarist autocracy of the Russian Empire is overthrown and leads to a transfer of power: the rise of the Soviet Union established by the Bolsheviks. This essay outlines