Literature/1945/Orwell
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- Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings.
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- q: Animal Farm
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- They run the farm themselves, only to have it degenerate into a brutal tyranny of its own.
- The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if a smooth transition to a people's government is not achieved.
Chronology
- Literature/1963/Gabor [+]
- Orwell, George (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. [+]
- Skinner, B. F. (1948). Walden Two. Macmillan Co., 1948. [+]
- Orwell, George (1946). "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, vol. 13, no. 76 (April), 252-265. [+]
- Orwell, George (1945). Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. [+]
- Huxley, Aldous (1940). Words and Their Meanings. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1938). World Brain. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1933). The Shape of Things to Come. Hutchinson. [+]
- Huxley, Aldous (1932). Brave New World. Harper Perennial, 1932. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1928). The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints For A World Revolution. Doubleday, Doran. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1923). Men Like Gods. Cassell and Co., Ltd. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1914). The World Set Free. Macmillan & Co. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1905). A Modern Utopia. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2005. [+]
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| The shade of the bar looks invariant in isolation but variant in context, in (favor of) sharp contrast with the color gradient background, hence an innate illusion we have to reasonably interpret and overcome as well as the mirage. Such variance appearing seasonably from context to context may not only be the case with our vision but worldview in general in practice indeed, whether a priori or a posteriori. Perhaps no worldview from nowhere, without any point of view or prejudice at all!
Ogden & Richards (1923) said, "All experience ... is either enjoyed or interpreted ... or both, and very little of it escapes some degree of interpretation." H. G. Wells (1938) said, "The human individual is born now to live in a society for which his fundamental instincts are altogether inadequate." |
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