Question

5. Explain how the political events of the 1940s influenced Orwell's writing at that time.

Answer 1

Answer:

Orwell considered himself a democratic socialist, although he had a period in which he supported anarchist causes in Spain.

Explanation:

This speaks a lot about Orwell. It says that Orwell despised authoritarianism, and totalitarianism, and preferred governments where the power was descentralized.

During the 1940s, three totalitarian regimes were in full force: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Soviet Russia. Orwell looked at these regimes with horror, because of the ways these regimes controlled every single aspects of people's lives.

He used these events as direct inspiration for his writing, specially for writing his most famous work: 1984, the story of a totalitarian society that shares many similarities with the regimes previously mentioned.