The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of Orwell’s understanding of socialism through analysing some of his works: The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Especially, for the purpose of drawing attention to the conditions of the poor and oppressed, Orwell got down among the poorest people and produced a body of work dealing with poverty and social injustice, as well as other works dealing with the violation of basic human rights by totalitarian oppression. His idea of socialism is based on a classless, egalitarian society in which the state has the responsibility to provide its citizens with equal rights and equal opportunities, so that every individual is capable of thinking for themselves. He has a unique understanding of socialism that contradicts the Stalinist Communism of his age and capitalist ideology in general. However his political views conformed to neither communism nor capitalism, which were the major political ideologies that governed the world politics in the first half of the 20th century. Orwell is generally considered to be a “political writer” (Rossi and Rodden 1). He is best known for his fable Animal Farm, and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (Rossi and Rodden 8-10). George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair, is one of the most prominent English writers of 20th century (Ash).
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