George Orwell's 1984 is a powerful novel that delves into the human psyche and the framework of society. Set in a dystopian ...

In 1984 he imagined a time when, no longer an instrument, language might become the exemplification of a lie that had gotten beyond any man's control. Perhaps without reason, Orwell never thought ...

George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...

Orwell shows how language can be used to control others. Throughout the novel, the Seven Commandments are edited, changed or deleted by the pigs to extend their control over the other farm animals.

How did it come to wield that control in the first place? Orwell, aka Eric Blair, a socialist freedom fighter and a repentant former colonial officer who had a lifelong fascination with language ...

But it is a fitting one. Language, in 1984, is violence by another means, an adjunct of the totalitarian strategies inflicted by the regime. Orwell’s most famous novel, in that sense ...

The administration's efforts to create an authoritarian state have copied strategies from the dystopian novel “1984” by George Orwell. One is “Newspeak," which is the fictional language of ...

George Orwell’s beloved allegorical work ... will be given a local spin in an upcoming Malay language adaptation called Kandang by father and son team Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim and Omar ...