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Definition of orwell'ci in English English dictionary
- Orwell
- {i} family name; George Orwell (1903-1950, born Eric Arthur Blair), English author who is best known for his works "Animal Farm" and "1984
- orwell
- imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)
- George Orwell
- (1903-1950, born Eric Arthur Blair), English author born in India who is best known for his works "Animal Farm" and "1984
- George Orwell
- a British writer and journalist who wrote books about politics and who also wrote novels. His real name was Eric Blair. His books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are both about political systems in which ordinary people have no power, and are completely controlled by the government. Both novels have had a great influence on the way people think about and write about politics, and political systems like those described in the books are sometimes called Orwellian. Orwell fought on the Republican (=left wing) side in the Spanish Civil War (1903-1950). orig. Eric Arthur Blair born 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India died Jan. 21, 1950, London, Eng. British novelist, essayist, and critic. Instead of accepting a scholarship to a university, Orwell went to Burma to serve in the Indian Imperial Police (1922-27), an experience that changed him into a literary and political rebel. On returning to Europe, he lived in self-imposed poverty, gaining material for Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), and became a socialist. He went to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and stayed to join the Republican militia. His war experiences, which gave him a lifelong dread of communism (he would later provide British intelligence services with lists of his fellow British communists), are recounted in Homage to Catalonia (1938). His novels typically portray a sensitive, conscientious, emotionally isolated individual at odds with an oppressive or dishonest social environment. His most famous works are the anti-Soviet satirical fable Animal Farm (1945), and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) a dystopic vision of totalitarianism whose influence was widely felt in the postwar decades. His literary essays are also admired
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Definition of orwell'ci in Turkish English dictionary
- orwellian
- george orwell ile ilgili
- orwellian
- orwell''ci
- (Edebiyat) Of, relating to, or evocative of the works of George Orwell, especially the satirical novel 1984, which depicts a futuristic totalitarian state
- orwell''ci
- Frightening and overcontrolled by a government that interferes in nearly every aspect of personal life; example: Biometric devices like eye-scanners allow an Orwellian level of government knowledge about everyone’s location
- orwell''ci
- of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state)