Pollitt was suspicious of Orwell's political reliability ; he asked him whether he would undertake to join the International Brigade and advised him to get a safe-conduct from the Spanish Embassy in Paris.

Orwell's Aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support.

* George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and A Clergyman's Daughter

In some ways it is similar to George Orwell's much earlier Down and Out in Paris and London, German investigative reporter Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten ( The Lowest of the Low ), and John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me.

* Navvies are referenced throughout George Orwell's fictionalized memoir Down and Out in Paris and London.

Billericay is also mentioned in George Orwell's novel Down and Out in Paris and London.

* The title is a reference to George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.

Other projects in the pipeline include a biopic of Elton John called Rocketman, a stage musical adaptation of Pink Floyd's The Wall and a film adaptation of George Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London.

There is a description of cupping in George Orwell's essay How The Poor Die, where he was surprised to find it practised in a Paris hospital.

It is a book of a street gang in Los Angeles ( specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs ), has been highly acclaimed and contrasted to the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities.

Big Brother's face looms from giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( film ) | 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Big Brother ( 1984 ) | Big Brother's face looms on giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( film ) | 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The quote is adapted from a quote in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1984.

Henceforth, conflict theory demonstrates the dominating ideology of the bourgeoisie and Moran's theory highlights that doublespeak produces an illusionary effect ; both theories having parallels to Orwell's ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The NCTE's publications resonate with George Orwell's name, and allusions to him abound in statements on doublespeak ; for example, the committee quoted Orwell's remark that " language is often used as an instrument of social control " in Language and Public Policy.

Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.

Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.

Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare " two plus two equals five " as a fact ; he ponders whether, if everybody believes it, does that make it true?

The site also contains a catalogue of books considered to be relevant to the magazine's themes and ideas ; although many of these books contain far-right content, often taking the form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, there are some more surprising entries, such as the reformed Communist and social democrat George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and left-wing conspiracist Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

His break with Orwell came when he declined to publish Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia ; the pair having drifted apart on political grounds.

Some of the best-known productions screened in the strand included a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1965 ); the four-part Talking to a Stranger by John Hopkins ( 1966 ) which told the same story from four different viewpoints, and starred Judi Dench ; and 1968's science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics, again by Kneale.

He has diverse political views ; he is adamantly pro-choice, supports gay rights, and compares the Patriot Act to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

* Excerpts from Orwell's letters to his agent concerning Animal Farm

The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

However, doublespeak might possibly have certain concepts taken from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".

Although the theories that premise doublespeak are still indefinite, there are some theories that have parallels with the theory of doublespeak and Orwell's ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four and might possibly provide a better understanding of where doublespeak's theories could have come from.

* George Orwell's dystopian novel " Nineteen Eighty-Four " includes selections from a banned fictional book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, which citizens of Oceania are forbidden to read.

While the substance of many of Orwell's novels, particularly Burmese Days, is drawn from his personal experiences, the following are works presented as narrative documentaries, rather than being fictionalised.

* The Orwell Diaries: a daily extract from Orwell's diary from the same date seventy years before

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

According to Garraty's father, he is " a society-supported sociopath ", and he bears a strong physical resemblance to depictions of Big Brother from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

D. J. Taylor argues that these factors, and the fact that Gollancz was not a person to part with such a sum on speculation, suggest that Gorer was confusing Orwell's eventual earnings from the book with a small contribution for out of pocket expenses that Gollancz might have given him.

They began to gig regularly as a duo, performing to backing tracks played from a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened " Winston " ( after the antihero of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four ).

The title is a direct quotation from George Orwell's novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying ( 1936 ).

Nevertheless, the record was presented as " music derived from the original score of Eurythmics for the Michael Radford film version of Orwell's 1984 ".

The album's first single, " Sexcrime ( Nineteen Eighty-Four )", was a top 5 hit in the UK, Australia and across Europe, and a major dance success in the United States, but its supposedly suggestive title ( actually taken from the newspeak phrase used in Orwell's book ) resulted in many U. S. pop radio stations refusing to play the track.

The thrust of Orwell's criticism was directed at the system of boarding school education that sent children away from their homes when they were no more than 7 or 8 years old, and at the unreflective elitism and classism of Britain before the First World War.

Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the vernacular with several of his neologisms, such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and thought police.

Orwell's confusing approach to matters of social decorum — on the one hand expecting a working-class guest to dress for dinner, and on the other, slurping tea out of a saucer at the BBC canteen — helped stoke his reputation as an English eccentric.

Beckton was also used as a location in Michael Radford's 1984 feature film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four — the Gasworks served as the setting for Orwell's " Proletarian Zones ".