GEORGE ORWELL

(1903 – 1950)
AUTHOR ::: POLITICS: :::

George Orwell wrote with a plainness sharpened into moral force. A political writer by necessity rather than ideology, he believed that clarity was an ethical act in a world increasingly distorted by power. His work insists that language matters—because whoever controls it shapes reality itself.

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) remains his most devastating warning: a vision of total surveillance, enforced conformity, and manufactured truth. The novel is not prophecy so much as extrapolation, built from Orwell’s firsthand encounters with propaganda, censorship, and authoritarianism. Its terror lies in how ordinary its mechanisms feel.

Orwell’s legacy endures because he refused comfort on either side of politics. He distrusted dogma, exposed hypocrisy, and insisted on intellectual honesty even when it isolated him. In an age of slogans and spectacle, Orwell remains essential precisely because he wrote against them.