University Degree: George Orwell
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Orwell & Marx Animalism vs. Marxism
Orwell's work indicates that he had read Marx with care and understanding. That he remained unconvinced and highly critical does not mean he did could not follow Marx's arguments; or rather, it could mean that only to a Marxist� (Zwerdling, 20). It is in Animal Farm, lesser talked about for the author's social theories than Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Orwell's criticisms of Marxism can be seen as well as Orwell's social theory, which can be seen through a careful reading of what the animals refer to as Animalism.
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Consider George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-four from a Marxist perspective.
life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested?7. The characterisation of the old man as typifying the mindless proletarian, who are ?too much crushed by drudgery? to be aware of the changes from the old capitalist democracy to the now totalitarian rule under ?Big Brother? and his representation of the party as an unchallengeable force in Oceania were intentionally hyperbolic to demonstrate the connection between the dystopian world of Nineteen Eighty-four, full of coerciveness and impoverishment, and the current system in the real world
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