George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for such works as Animal Farm (1945), which was an anti-Soviet tale, and Nineteen-Eighty Four (1949), which showed that the destruction of language is an essential part of oppression. George frequency voiced his opinion and was consider a political idealist. George's writing career revolved around standing up for personal freedom and political injustices. In 1949, he wrote an essay entitled Why Write?, arguing that writers have an obligation to fight social and political wrong doings, oppression, and the powerful totalitarian regimes (Blair-Website).
             George Orwell's novel Nineteen-Eighty Four (1949), depicts a society marked by political wrong doings and lack of freedom. The novel talks about a superstate, which is ruled by a socialist regime. The regime is using new technology to monitor and supervise the citizens of the state. The regime also uses a specific language to further oppress its citizens. This language is called Newspeak, and the society is dominated by such slogans as "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and "Ignorance is Strength" (1984).
             The book was based upon 1940's political and social situations. Orwell looked at the world, taking both the good and bad aspects and brought them together to create his novel. He used the Nazis of Germany, the Communists of Russia and China, and democracy of the United States and England as the backbone for a political system. He also looked at World War II and the start of the Cold War for other political and social influence. The book focuses on the oppression of language, freedom of speech, and the use of technology to control people. Orwell's writing was well before his time, and only today can we start to understand what he was referring to about the oppressive use of technology. The question that comes to mind after research Orwell's backg...