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For my latest blog posts, please see: http://www.stannersenglishblog.com ----------------------------------------- Orwell created his novel as a warning to society about the dangers of totalitarianism: To gain a broader understanding of why and how this novel remains relevant, student need to be able gauge Orwell's contextual motivations and worldview. There are many excellent sites available but what Orwell himself wrote about his authorial purpose is an excellent starting point. The following quote is a good discussion prompt about how writing can be skillfully used as a powerful political and allegorical tool for raising social awareness. ‘What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ” I am going to produce a work of art.” I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience.
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