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Eric Arthur Blair

Modernist writer

Socialist opinions

Bengal(India) 1903 - England 1950

Educated at Eton

Britain's imperial police force in India

Burmese Days (1934)

Works

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Social experiment

Cleryman's Daughter (1935)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Socialist beliefs

Homage to Catalonia (1937)

Spanish Civil War

Animal Farm (1945)

Satire of Russian Revolution

Totalitarian world

Main characters

Oceania, Eurosia, Eastasia

Big Brother

War is artificial to keep people in a state of subjection

Brainwashing

Newspeak

Room 101

Doublethink

Love is Hate

contradiction in terms

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Winston Smith

Against snobbish education