I had no idea that the premise of 1984 was born out of personal experience! Great article! And so true that a watched society self censors. Only the brave stand up...and I suppose that has been ever the case.
Neither did I, so when started studying Orwell and discovered this experience in the Spanish Civil War it seemed worth sharing that 1984 wasn't an abstract thing out of Orwell's imagination but actually came from real life experience from which he simply imagined the potential for how much worse this would be in the future.
I had no idea that the premise of 1984 was born out of personal experience! Great article! And so true that a watched society self censors. Only the brave stand up...and I suppose that has been ever the case.
Neither did I, so when started studying Orwell and discovered this experience in the Spanish Civil War it seemed worth sharing that 1984 wasn't an abstract thing out of Orwell's imagination but actually came from real life experience from which he simply imagined the potential for how much worse this would be in the future.