Orwell’s Animal Farm is commonly read as a critique of Stalinism. However, does Orwell critique Stalinism or totalitarianism in general? And, what is more significant, does he tell a cautionary tale of how quickly and easily a power structure might…
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Zamyatin and Huxley through Orwell’s eyes
In Freedom and Happiness (see on the Orwell Foundation‘s website), Orwell writes about Zamyatin‘s We and Huxley’s Brave New World. Orwell finds that Huxley’s novel must have been “derived” from Zamyatin’s and that Zamyatin’s view is more pertinent to our…