George Orwell’s visions of dystopia
Orwell’s work shaped by his own experiences of war and oppression?
Anyone wishing to know George Orwell better need only leaf through the masterpieces of literature he left behind. The plight of poverty exposed in was his own; his contempt for communism saw the Russian Revolution turned into a barnyard drama in ; and the haunting pictures of a dystopian future in had been painted as his warning of totalitarianism. Orwell loathed imperialism, rejected a bourgeois lifestyle, and longed – even fought – for socialist revolution.
