George Orwell's View On Government

George Orwell was born in Bengal, India in 1903 during the midst of absolute rule. He could also be dubbed as a politician as he wrote many works about government and politics. Orwell’s view on government was that he rejected communism and adopted socialism as his belief. He wrote many works to show his beliefs in the government system. His most famous works include 1984 and Animal Farm. These works brought attention to the public and the public started to view the government differently. The Modern Period of British Literature led George Orwell to use various styles like satire, figurative language, irony, and allegory to demonstrate his view on government. Modernism of British Literature illustrated change in style and views. As

Orwell was against the fact of totalitarianism because he thought it was dangerous in society for one person to have complete and absolute control of government or country. It was said that totalitarianism existed because of the love of “power and domination over others…and irresistible police state under whose rule every human virtue” (3). This example was from the Russian Revolution, where George Orwell satirized it by writing a novel and explaining his own viewpoints on the subject. The most notable novel he wrote dealing with the criticism of the Russian Revolution was Animal Farm. Animal Farm was a novel that used animals to portray dictators and to model corrupt government. The book shows the illiteracy of tyrants and dictators in the form of animals. A quality would be the ability to write. Animals in general cannot write or even speak. An example would be the writing of the Seven Commandments (Orwell 21). This is satirical because the animals are literally writing nonsense, but it seems to be the greatest thing ever to all animals because the commandments were seen as propaganda. This can be related to the dictators because they used the exact nonsense to convince their people. The things that they passed was known as propaganda. They used propaganda to influence the minds of people. George Orwell satirized the dictators by portraying them as animals that cannot do anything, but were aggressive and impulsive. In the beginning of the book, the animals thought of having a perfect society where everyone is equal. (Orwell 21). It becomes the opposite towards the end of the novel, where the pigs start acting like humans. The humans were the dictators and the animals start becoming like them, thus ruling the Manor (Orwell 124). Orwell does not stop as he used figurative language to convey his view on