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** Critics have frequently quoted his rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active” out of context, distorting it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]Linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice because most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[MisBlamed wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well-constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
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** Critics have frequently quoted his rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active” out of context, distorting it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times sometimes rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]Linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice because most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[MisBlamed wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well-constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
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Orwell struggled with occasional periods of ill-health throughout his life, and during once such period, in December 1947, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He never managed to fully recover from his sickness and his health steadily deteriorated over the next few years as he went in and out of medical institutions for treatments (some of which, in hindsight and with medical science being what it was at the time, might have done him more harm than good). And in the winter of 1949 it was obvious to family, friends, and Orwell himself that he was deadly ill and on his last legs. Finally, on the morning of January 20, 1950, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at age 46.
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Orwell struggled with occasional periods of ill-health throughout his life, and during once such period, in December 1947, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He never managed to fully recover from his sickness and his health steadily deteriorated over the next few years as he went in and out of medical institutions for treatments (some of which, in hindsight and with medical science being what it was at the time, might have done him more harm than good). And in the winter of 1949 it was obvious to family, friends, and Orwell himself that he was deadly ill and on his last legs. Finally, on the morning of January 20, 1950, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at the age of 46.
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Orwell struggled with occasional periods of ill-health throughout his life, and during once such period, in December 1947, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He never managed to fully recover from his sickness and his health steadily deteriorated over the next few years as he went in and out of medical institutions for treatments (some of which, in hindsight and with medical science being what it was at the time, might have done him more harm than good). And in the winter of 1949 it was obvious to family, friends, and Orwell himself that he was deadly ill and on his last legs. Finally, on the morning of January 20, 1950, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at age 46.
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* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon'' (1933) -- account of his experiences of poverty in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} titular]] [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cities]].
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* ''A Hanging'' (1931)
* ''The Spike'' (1931)
* ''Bookshop Memories'' (1936)
* ''Shooting an Elephant'' (1936)
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans'' (1937)
* ''Boys' Weeklies'' (1940)
* ''Inside the Whale'' (1940)
* ''My Country Right or Left'' (1940)
* ''The Art of Donald [=McGill=]'' (1940)
* ''England Your England'' (1941)
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' (1941)
* ''Poetry and the Microphone'' (1943)
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish'' (1944)
* ''Good Bad Books'' (1945)
* ''Notes on Nationalism'' (1945)
* ''The Sporting Spirit'' (1945)
* ''Books v. Cigarettes'' (1946)
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer'' (1946)
* ''Decline of the English Murder'' (1946)
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray'' (1946)
* ''How the Poor Die'' (1946)
* ''The Moon Under Water'' (1946)
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea'' (1946)
* ''Pleasure Spots'' (1946)
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language (1946)]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
* ''The Politics of Starvation'' (1946)
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels'' (1946)
* ''The Prevention of Literature'' (1946)
* ''Riding Down from Bangor'' (1946)
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham'' (1946)
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'' (1946)
* ''Why I Write'' (1946)
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool'' (1947)
* ''The English People'' (1947)
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys'' (1952)
* ''The Spike'' (1931)
* ''Bookshop Memories'' (1936)
* ''Shooting an Elephant'' (1936)
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans'' (1937)
* ''Boys' Weeklies'' (1940)
* ''Inside the Whale'' (1940)
* ''My Country Right or Left'' (1940)
* ''The Art of Donald [=McGill=]'' (1940)
* ''England Your England'' (1941)
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' (1941)
* ''Poetry and the Microphone'' (1943)
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish'' (1944)
* ''Good Bad Books'' (1945)
* ''Notes on Nationalism'' (1945)
* ''The Sporting Spirit'' (1945)
* ''Books v. Cigarettes'' (1946)
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer'' (1946)
* ''Decline of the English Murder'' (1946)
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray'' (1946)
* ''How the Poor Die'' (1946)
* ''The Moon Under Water'' (1946)
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea'' (1946)
* ''Pleasure Spots'' (1946)
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language (1946)]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
* ''The Politics of Starvation'' (1946)
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels'' (1946)
* ''The Prevention of Literature'' (1946)
* ''Riding Down from Bangor'' (1946)
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham'' (1946)
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'' (1946)
* ''Why I Write'' (1946)
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool'' (1947)
* ''The English People'' (1947)
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys'' (1952)
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* ''A Hanging'' "A Hanging" (1931)
*''The Spike'' "The Spike" (1931)
*''Bookshop Memories'' "Bookshop Memories" (1936)
*''Shooting "Shooting an Elephant'' Elephant" (1936)
*''Spilling "Spilling the Spanish Beans'' Beans" (1937)
*''Boys' Weeklies'' "Boys' Weeklies" (1940)
*''Inside "Inside the Whale'' Whale" (1940)
*''My "My Country Right or Left'' Left" (1940)
*''The "The Art of Donald [=McGill=]'' [=McGill=]" (1940)
*''England "England Your England'' England" (1941)
*''The "The Lion and the Unicorn'' Unicorn" (1941)
*''Poetry "Poetry and the Microphone'' Microphone" (1943)
*''Raffles "Raffles and Miss Blandish'' Blandish" (1944)
*''Good "Good Bad Books'' Books" (1945)
*''Notes "Notes on Nationalism'' Nationalism" (1945)
*''The "The Sporting Spirit'' Spirit" (1945)
*''Books "Books v. Cigarettes'' Cigarettes" (1946)
*''Confessions "Confessions of a Book Reviewer'' Reviewer" (1946)
*''Decline "Decline of the English Murder'' Murder" (1946)
*''A "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray'' Bray" (1946)
*''How "How the Poor Die'' Die" (1946)
*''The "The Moon Under Water'' Water" (1946)
*''A "A Nice Cup of Tea'' Tea" (1946)
*''Pleasure Spots'' "Pleasure Spots" (1946)
*''[[http://orwell.[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics "Politics and the English Language (1946)]]'' Language"]] (1946) -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
*''The "The Politics of Starvation'' Starvation" (1946)
*''Politics "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels'' ''Literature/GulliversTravels''" (1946)
*''The "The Prevention of Literature'' Literature" (1946)
*''Riding "Riding Down from Bangor'' Bangor" (1946)
*''Second "Second Thoughts on James Burnham'' Burnham" (1946)
*''Some "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'' Toad" (1946)
*''Why "Why I Write'' Write" (1946)
*''Lear, Tolstoy "[[Theatre/KingLear Lear]], [[Creator/LeoTolstoy Tolstoy]] and the Fool'' Fool" (1947)
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* AuthorUsurpation: Orwell's collected essays, journalism and letters take up eleven volumes, and they plus his other non-fiction include important and interesting writings about the Spanish Civil War, popular culture, poverty in the UK, left-wing politics in the 30s and 40s (from his very personal perspective) and loads of other topics that he liked to write about, but he's mostly associated with ''1984'', a book he write while very ill, and which he felt disappointed with when he'd finished it, and to a lesser extent ''Animal Farm''.
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* AuthorUsurpation: Orwell's collected essays, journalism journalism, and letters take up eleven volumes, and they plus his other non-fiction include important and interesting writings about the Spanish Civil War, popular culture, poverty in the UK, left-wing politics in the 30s TheThirties and 40s TheForties (from his very personal perspective) and loads of other topics that he liked to write about, but he's mostly associated with ''1984'', a book he write while very ill, and which he felt disappointed with when he'd finished it, and to a lesser extent ''Animal Farm''.
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** Orwell's advice about prose writing was based on his [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] conviction that most writers, including himself, ''weren't good enough'' at convincingly using all the resources of the English language, and he thought that if non-genius writers were going to write at all, then they should aim to write as clearly as possible, and avoid pretentious Latinate words such as "fallacious" when they already had the perfectly useful word "wrong". He wasn't in favour of purging all foreign and foreign-derived words from English; in the above-mentioned essay, he uses Latinate words such as "consequently", "incompetence", "formation" and "impartiality". What he disliked was the practice of not using a simple and clear but boring word, when you could use a vague and unclear but glamorously foreign neologism. Furthermore, the essay was not referring to the the literary fiction that the above counterexamples write in, but was primarily aimed at political writing, where such Latinate words are often used to obfuscate a point (such as using euphemisms to obscure talking about a sensitive topic such as war crimes) rather than clarify it.
** His rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active” has frequently been quoted out of context by such critics, who distort it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]The reason linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice is that most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[{{Misblamed}} wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
** His rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active” has frequently been quoted out of context by such critics, who distort it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]The reason linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice is that most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[{{Misblamed}} wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
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** Orwell's advice about prose writing was based on his [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] conviction that most writers, including himself, ''weren't good enough'' at convincingly using all the resources of the English language, and he thought that if non-genius writers were going to write at all, then they should aim to write as clearly as possible, and avoid pretentious Latinate words such as "fallacious" when they already had the perfectly useful word "wrong". He wasn't in favour of didn't advocate purging all foreign and foreign-derived words from English; in the above-mentioned essay, he uses Latinate words such as "consequently", "incompetence", "formation" and "impartiality". What he disliked was the practice of not using a simple and clear but boring word, when you could use a vague and unclear but glamorously foreign neologism. Furthermore, the essay was not referring to the the literary fiction that the above counterexamples write in, but was primarily aimed at political writing, where writers often use such Latinate words are often used to obfuscate a point (such as using euphemisms to obscure talking about a sensitive topic such as war crimes) rather than clarify it.
**His Critics have frequently quoted his rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active” has frequently been quoted out of context by such critics, who distort context, distorting it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]The reason linguists [[note]]Linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice is that because most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[{{Misblamed}} [[MisBlamed wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well constructed well-constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: In ''Notes on Nationalism'', Orwell condemns the “large underground mythology about the sexual prowess of Negroes”, saying it’s linked to the self-hatred and dishonesty of English intellectuals.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: In ''Notes "Notes on Nationalism'', Nationalism", Orwell condemns the “large underground mythology about the sexual prowess of Negroes”, saying it’s linked to the self-hatred and dishonesty of English intellectuals.
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** ''Homage to Catalonia'' was about his firsthand experiences during the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, ''Animal Farm'' was a satire on the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], and ''1984'' summarized all his fears about Nazism, Fascism and Communism. Of course Orwell could exaggerate "real life" as in "Shooting an Elephant."
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** ''Homage to Catalonia'' was about his firsthand experiences during the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, ''Animal Farm'' was a satire on the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], and ''1984'' summarized all his fears about Nazism, Fascism and Communism. Of course course, Orwell could [[LifeEmbellished exaggerate "real life" life"]], as in "Shooting an Elephant."
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A democratic UsefulNotes/{{socialis|m}}t most of his adult life, his views changed somewhat over time, as he became more cynical, but he never renounced his support of democratic socialism. His dislike of UsefulNotes/{{fascism}} and Stalinism (which he considered a totalitarian corruption of socialism) was ''very'' clear. Orwell, a journalist, participated in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar on the side of the Republicans, serving in the party militia of the P.O.U.M. or Party of Marxist Worker's Unification,[[note]]Note that he didn't care for the POUM's ideology very much -- he only ended up in its militia because he had come to Spain via the British Independent Labour Party, which was affiliated with the POUM. And because the POUM was '''[[EnemyMine against]]''' [[EnemyMine the Soviets, whom Orwell already mistrusted]].[[/note]] and even got ''shot in the throat'' ([[OnlyAFleshWound an experience that he would later describe as "interesting"]]). [[DeadpanSnarker His works]] [[CrapsackWorld tend to be]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality considered cynical.]] The term "Orwellian" is named after his famous works of [[CrapsackWorld dystopian]] fiction, particularly ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.[[note]]Which is more than a tad ironic, given that this went against what Orwell himself believed.[[/note]]
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A democratic UsefulNotes/{{socialis|m}}t most of his adult life, his views changed somewhat over time, as he became more cynical, but he never renounced his support of democratic socialism. His dislike of UsefulNotes/{{fascism}} and Stalinism (which he considered a totalitarian corruption of socialism) was ''very'' clear. clear.
Orwell, a journalist, participated in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar on the side of the Republicans, serving in the party militia of the P.O.U.M. or Party of Marxist Worker's Unification,[[note]]Note that he didn't care for the POUM's ideology very much -- he only ended up in its militia because he had come to Spain via the British Independent Labour Party, which was affiliated with the POUM. And because the POUM was '''[[EnemyMine against]]''' [[EnemyMine the Soviets, whom Orwell already mistrusted]].[[/note]] and even got ''shot in the throat'' ([[OnlyAFleshWound an experience that he would later describe as "interesting"]]). [[DeadpanSnarker His works]] [[CrapsackWorld tend to be]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality considered cynical.]] The term "Orwellian" is named after his famous works of [[CrapsackWorld dystopian]] fiction, particularly ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.[[note]]Which is more than a tad ironic, given that this went against what Orwell himself believed.[[/note]]
Orwell, a journalist, participated in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar on the side of the Republicans, serving in the party militia of the P.O.U.M. or Party of Marxist Worker's Unification,[[note]]Note that he didn't care for the POUM's ideology very much -- he only ended up in its militia because he had come to Spain via the British Independent Labour Party, which was affiliated with the POUM. And because the POUM was '''[[EnemyMine against]]''' [[EnemyMine the Soviets, whom Orwell already mistrusted]].[[/note]] and even got ''shot in the throat'' ([[OnlyAFleshWound an experience that he would later describe as "interesting"]]). [[DeadpanSnarker His works]] [[CrapsackWorld tend to be]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality considered cynical.]] The term "Orwellian" is named after his famous works of [[CrapsackWorld dystopian]] fiction, particularly ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.[[note]]Which is more than a tad ironic, given that this went against what Orwell himself believed.[[/note]]
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** Orwell continues to be held up as a hero by both the left and the right, for reasons of differing degrees of validity, in spite of the [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography revelation in 2007]] that, when he was a teenager, he'd sexually assaulted a female friend, Jacintha Buddicom. Hardly anyone knows about it; apparently, people don't want to think this about him.
** There's also his statement from his largely critical 1940 review of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' that he "has never been able to dislike Hitler". Ironically enough, this is usually omitted from modern reproductions, exactly the kind of face-saving censorship Orwell denounced in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''.
** And his homophobia, displayed when Gordon Comstock, the protagonist of ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying'', sneeringly mocks a gay man. Such views were, unfortunately, not exactly uncommon in the 1930s.
** Orwell continues to be held up as a hero by both the left and the right, for reasons of differing degrees of validity, in spite of the [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography revelation in 2007]] that, when he was a teenager, he'd sexually assaulted a female friend, Jacintha Buddicom. Hardly anyone knows about it; apparently, people don't want to think this about him.
** There's also his statement from his largely critical 1940 review of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' that he "has never been able to dislike Hitler". Ironically enough, this is usually omitted from modern reproductions, exactly the kind of face-saving censorship Orwell denounced in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''.
** And his homophobia, displayed when Gordon Comstock, the protagonist of ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying'', sneeringly mocks a gay man. Such views were, unfortunately, not exactly uncommon in the 1930s.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Admitted that he only wrote ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying'' as he was desperate for cash, and [[CreatorBacklash would have preferred never to have written it at all]].
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** Orwell continues to be held up as a hero by both the left and the right, for reasons of differing degrees of validity, in spite of the [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography revelation in 2007]] that, when he was a teenager, he'd sexually assaulted a female friend, Jacintha Buddicom. Hardly anyone knows about it; apparently, people don't want to think this abouthim.him.
** There's also his statement from his largely critical 1940 review of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' that he "has never been able to dislike Hitler". Ironically enough, this is usually omitted from modern reproductions, exactly the kind of face-saving censorship Orwell denounced in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''.
** Orwell continues to be held up as a hero by both the left and the right, for reasons of differing degrees of validity, in spite of the [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography revelation in 2007]] that, when he was a teenager, he'd sexually assaulted a female friend, Jacintha Buddicom. Hardly anyone knows about it; apparently, people don't want to think this about
** There's also his statement from his largely critical 1940 review of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' that he "has never been able to dislike Hitler". Ironically enough, this is usually omitted from modern reproductions, exactly the kind of face-saving censorship Orwell denounced in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''.
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* BadassBiker: Orwell acquired a four-cylinder motorcycle of American manufacture just after his arrival in Burma[[note]]A highly expensive possession for a relatively poor police officer, as most four-cylinders in the 1920s were more expensive than a Model T Ford.[[/note]] and [[http://www.orwelltoday.com/orwellmotorbike.shtml went through several funny adventures while riding it in the Burman countryside]]. While in Britain he owned a 500cc Rudge-Whitworth motorcycle, which he rode in all weather on the worst roads and abandoned on the Isle of Jura shortly before death. [[http://www.orwelltoday.com/orwellmotorbike.shtml The bike was rediscovered in 2006.]]
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* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon (1933)'' -- account of his experiences of poverty in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} titular]] [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cities]].
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays (1934)''
* ''A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)''
* ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying (1936)''
* ''The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia (1938)'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Coming Up for Air (1939)''
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* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour (1949)''
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*''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying (1936)''
''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying'' (1936)
* ''The Road to WiganPier (1937)''
Pier'' (1937)
*''Literature/HomageToCatalonia (1938)'' ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'' (1938) -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Coming Up forAir (1939)''
Air'' (1939)
*''Literature/AnimalFarm (1945)''
''Literature/AnimalFarm'' (1945)
*''Literature/NineteenEightyFour (1949)''
''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' (1949)
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* ''A Hanging (1931)''
* ''The Spike (1931)''
* ''Bookshop Memories (1936)''
* ''Shooting an Elephant (1936)''
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)''
* ''Boys' Weeklies (1940)''
* ''Inside the Whale (1940)''
* ''My Country Right or Left (1940)''
* ''The Art of Donald [=McGill=] (1940)''
* ''England Your England (1941)''
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)''
* ''Poetry and the Microphone (1943)''
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)''
* ''Good Bad Books (1945)''
* ''Notes on Nationalism (1945)''
* ''The Sporting Spirit (1945)''
* ''Books v. Cigarettes (1946)''
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)''
* ''Decline of the English Murder (1946)''
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)''
* ''How the Poor Die (1946)''
* ''The Moon Under Water (1946)''
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)''
* ''Pleasure Spots (1946)''
* ''The Spike (1931)''
* ''Bookshop Memories (1936)''
* ''Shooting an Elephant (1936)''
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)''
* ''Boys' Weeklies (1940)''
* ''Inside the Whale (1940)''
* ''My Country Right or Left (1940)''
* ''The Art of Donald [=McGill=] (1940)''
* ''England Your England (1941)''
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)''
* ''Poetry and the Microphone (1943)''
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)''
* ''Good Bad Books (1945)''
* ''Notes on Nationalism (1945)''
* ''The Sporting Spirit (1945)''
* ''Books v. Cigarettes (1946)''
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)''
* ''Decline of the English Murder (1946)''
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)''
* ''How the Poor Die (1946)''
* ''The Moon Under Water (1946)''
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)''
* ''Pleasure Spots (1946)''
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* ''A Hanging (1931)''
Hanging'' (1931)
* ''TheSpike (1931)''
Spike'' (1931)
* ''BookshopMemories (1936)''
Memories'' (1936)
* ''Shooting anElephant (1936)''
Elephant'' (1936)
* ''Spilling the SpanishBeans (1937)''
Beans'' (1937)
* ''Boys'Weeklies (1940)''
Weeklies'' (1940)
* ''Inside theWhale (1940)''
Whale'' (1940)
* ''My Country Right orLeft (1940)''
Left'' (1940)
* ''The Art of Donald[=McGill=] (1940)''
[=McGill=]'' (1940)
* ''England YourEngland (1941)''
England'' (1941)
* ''The Lion and theUnicorn (1941)''
Unicorn'' (1941)
* ''Poetry and theMicrophone (1943)''
Microphone'' (1943)
* ''Raffles and MissBlandish (1944)''
Blandish'' (1944)
* ''Good BadBooks (1945)''
Books'' (1945)
* ''Notes onNationalism (1945)''
Nationalism'' (1945)
* ''The SportingSpirit (1945)''
Spirit'' (1945)
* ''Books v.Cigarettes (1946)''
Cigarettes'' (1946)
* ''Confessions of a BookReviewer (1946)''
Reviewer'' (1946)
* ''Decline of the EnglishMurder (1946)''
Murder'' (1946)
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar ofBray (1946)''
Bray'' (1946)
* ''How the PoorDie (1946)''
Die'' (1946)
* ''The Moon UnderWater (1946)''
Water'' (1946)
* ''A Nice Cup ofTea (1946)''
Tea'' (1946)
* ''PleasureSpots (1946)'' Spots'' (1946)
* ''The
* ''Bookshop
* ''Shooting an
* ''Spilling the Spanish
* ''Boys'
* ''Inside the
* ''My Country Right or
* ''The Art of Donald
* ''England Your
* ''The Lion and the
* ''Poetry and the
* ''Raffles and Miss
* ''Good Bad
* ''Notes on
* ''The Sporting
* ''Books v.
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* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of
* ''How the Poor
* ''The Moon Under
* ''A Nice Cup of
* ''Pleasure
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* ''The Politics of Starvation (1946)''
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)''
* ''The Prevention of Literature (1946)''
* ''Riding Down from Bangor (1946)''
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)''
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)''
* ''Why I Write (1946)''
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)''
* ''The English People (1947)''
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys (1952)''
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)''
* ''The Prevention of Literature (1946)''
* ''Riding Down from Bangor (1946)''
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)''
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)''
* ''Why I Write (1946)''
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)''
* ''The English People (1947)''
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys (1952)''
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* ''The Politics of Starvation (1946)''
Starvation'' (1946)
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver'sTravels (1946)''
Travels'' (1946)
* ''The Prevention ofLiterature (1946)''
Literature'' (1946)
* ''Riding Down fromBangor (1946)''
Bangor'' (1946)
* ''Second Thoughts on JamesBurnham (1946)''
Burnham'' (1946)
* ''Some Thoughts on the CommonToad (1946)''
Toad'' (1946)
* ''Why IWrite (1946)''
Write'' (1946)
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and theFool (1947)''
Fool'' (1947)
* ''The EnglishPeople (1947)''
People'' (1947)
* ''Such, Such Were theJoys (1952)''
Joys'' (1952)
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's
* ''The Prevention of
* ''Riding Down from
* ''Second Thoughts on James
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common
* ''Why I
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the
* ''The English
* ''Such, Such Were the
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* ControversyProofImage: Orwell continues to be held up as a hero by both the left and the right, for reasons of differing degrees of validity, in spite of the [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography revelation in 2007]] that, when he was a teenager, he'd sexually assaulted a female friend, Jacintha Buddicom. Hardly anyone knows about it; apparently, people don't want to think this about him.
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* AuthorUsurpation: Orwell's collected essays, journalism and letters take up eleven volumes, and they plus his other non-fiction include important and interesting writings about the Spanish Civil War, popular culture, poverty in the UK, left-wing politics in the 30s and 40s (from his very personal perspective) and loads of other topics that he liked to write about, but he's mostly associated with ''1984'', a book he write while very ill, and which he felt disappointed with when he'd finished it, and to a lesser extent ''Animal Farm''.
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* OnlySaneMan: Postured himself as the only leftist in the world to see Stalin for who he truly was. [[UnreliableNarrator This is probably an exaggeration.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Postured Liked to present himself as the only leftist in the world world, or at any rate in Britain, to see Stalin for who he truly was. [[UnreliableNarrator This is probably an exaggeration.]]exaggeration. In fact, Orwell was well aware of important anti-Stalinist left-wingers such as Victor Serge and C.L.R. James, and he praised the latter's history of the Communist International as a "very able book"; pity he didn't do more to make them better-known.
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This is not a lesson that Orwell sought to teach.
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* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Fascists or communists only have to be elected once to forever destroy liberty in their country and make democracy as if it had never been. [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil They can’t be vanquished permanently even in stable democracies]], so society must always be on guard. ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' shows [[VillainWorld what happens]] when evil ''does'' win.
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* ''The Art of Donald McGill (1940)''
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* ''The Art of Donald McGill [=McGill=] (1940)''
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* ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)''
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* ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying (1936)''
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** Pretty much all his stories have these. ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' is a truly disheartening example.
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** Pretty much all his stories have these. ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' is a truly disheartening example.[[note]]Then again, there is the appendix about Newspeak that talks about it and Ingsoc in the ''past'' tense through an academic lens, implying that despite what O'Brien said, the Party will fall after all.[[/note]]
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He is also the current mascot for the "SugarWiki/HaveANiceCupOfTeaAndSitDown" page. He considered tea to be SeriousBusiness. SpotOfTea, indeed.
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He is also the current mascot for the "SugarWiki/HaveANiceCupOfTeaAndSitDown" page. He considered tea to be SeriousBusiness. SpotOfTea, BritsLoveTea, indeed.
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!! His most famous works are:
* ''Literature/AnimalFarm''
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon'' -- account of his experiences of poverty in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} titular]] [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cities]].
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
* ''Literature/AnimalFarm''
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon'' -- account of his experiences of poverty in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} titular]] [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cities]].
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
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!! His most famous works are:
He wrote 9 books:
*''Literature/AnimalFarm''
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon''''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon (1933)'' -- account of his experiences of poverty in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} titular]] [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cities]].
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays (1934)''
* ''A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)''
* ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)''
* ''The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia (1938)'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Coming Up for Air (1939)''
* ''Literature/AnimalFarm (1945)''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour (1949)''
!! Just some of the 556 articles that he wrote:
* ''A Hanging (1931)''
* ''The Spike (1931)''
* ''Bookshop Memories (1936)''
* ''Shooting an Elephant (1936)''
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)''
* ''Boys' Weeklies (1940)''
* ''Inside the Whale (1940)''
* ''My Country Right or Left (1940)''
* ''The Art of Donald McGill (1940)''
* ''England Your England (1941)''
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)''
* ''Poetry and the Microphone (1943)''
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)''
* ''Good Bad Books (1945)''
* ''Notes on Nationalism (1945)''
* ''The Sporting Spirit (1945)''
* ''Books v. Cigarettes (1946)''
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)''
* ''Decline of the English Murder (1946)''
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)''
* ''How the Poor Die (1946)''
* ''The Moon Under Water (1946)''
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)''
* ''Pleasure Spots (1946)''
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the EnglishLanguage]]'' Language (1946)]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
* ''The Politics of Starvation (1946)''
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)''
* ''The Prevention of Literature (1946)''
* ''Riding Down from Bangor (1946)''
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)''
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)''
* ''Why I Write (1946)''
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)''
* ''The English People (1947)''
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys (1952)''
*
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Literature/DownAndOutInParisAndLondon''
* ''Literature/BurmeseDays (1934)''
* ''A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)''
* ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)''
* ''The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)''
* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia (1938)'' -- an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain.
* ''Coming Up for Air (1939)''
* ''Literature/AnimalFarm (1945)''
* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour (1949)''
!! Just some of the 556 articles that he wrote:
* ''A Hanging (1931)''
* ''The Spike (1931)''
* ''Bookshop Memories (1936)''
* ''Shooting an Elephant (1936)''
* ''Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)''
* ''Boys' Weeklies (1940)''
* ''Inside the Whale (1940)''
* ''My Country Right or Left (1940)''
* ''The Art of Donald McGill (1940)''
* ''England Your England (1941)''
* ''The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)''
* ''Poetry and the Microphone (1943)''
* ''Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)''
* ''Good Bad Books (1945)''
* ''Notes on Nationalism (1945)''
* ''The Sporting Spirit (1945)''
* ''Books v. Cigarettes (1946)''
* ''Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)''
* ''Decline of the English Murder (1946)''
* ''A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)''
* ''How the Poor Die (1946)''
* ''The Moon Under Water (1946)''
* ''A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)''
* ''Pleasure Spots (1946)''
* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English
* ''The Politics of Starvation (1946)''
* ''Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)''
* ''The Prevention of Literature (1946)''
* ''Riding Down from Bangor (1946)''
* ''Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)''
* ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)''
* ''Why I Write (1946)''
* ''Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)''
* ''The English People (1947)''
* ''Such, Such Were the Joys (1952)''
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* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay.
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* ''[[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Politics and the English Language]]'' -- A hugely influential non-fiction essay.
essay, frequently cited by advocates of plain writing.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', MJ quotes him:
-->'''MJ:''' The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.
-->'''MJ:''' The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.
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* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Fascists or communists only have to be elected once to forever destroy liberty in their country and make democracy as if it had never been. [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil They can’t be vanquished permanently even in stable democracies]], so society must always be on guard. ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' shows [[VillainWorld what happens]] when evil ''does'' win.
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* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Depends entirely on whether the idea is good or evil. Since [[IntellectuallySupportedTyranny at least some intellectuals]] make excuses for totalitarianism, and since totalitarianism gains popular support wholly on the claim that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the dominant group is always right]], it can never truly disappear from society, even in [[DemocracyIsFlawed democracies]] (''especially'' [[CapitalismIsBad capitalist ones]]). On the other hand, if totalitarians ever come to power, they will by their nature corrupt humanity itself and remove every concept of goodness from the human condition, so that it cannot rise again even millennia later. In other words, [[CrapsackWorld you can kill the idea of democracy, but not of fascism]].
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I don’t know why I misquoted this the first time.
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** His rule of “Never use the passive voice when the active will suffice” has frequently been quoted out of context by such critics, who distort it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]The reason linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice is that most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[{{Misblamed}} wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
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** His rule of “Never use the passive voice when you could use the active will suffice” active” has frequently been quoted out of context by such critics, who distort it into a blanket prohibition on ever using the passive voice for any reason, but the second clause acknowledges that some times rendering a sentence in the active voice just isn’t possible, and his final rule is “Break any of the above rules sooner than write a barbarous sentence,” meaning that even if an active-voice construction is technically possible, that doesn’t mean one must use it if it sounds uglier and less natural than the passive.[[note]]The reason linguists take such umbrage at denunciations of the passive voice is that most of its haters [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance can’t recognize a passive construction when they see it]] and [[{{Misblamed}} wrongfully assume any ugly-sounding prose is in the passive even when actually in the active]], or else ''fail'' to deplore a well constructed sentence that uses the passive, while thinking it uses the active. Orwell did not demonstrate this vice.[[/note]]
