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《1984》 by George Orwell Gao Meng Engish 1104 Table of contents The Author of The Novel The Background The Brief Introduction of The Novel The Themes The Idioms of The Novel The Origin of The Title The author George Orwell was an British novelist and essayist between the two world wars He was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-50), an English writer who at one time served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, an experience he recorded in Homage to Catalonia. His novels: Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities); Burmese Days; Coming up for Air; A Clergyman s Daughter; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Animal Farm; and 1984. The last two novels vilify (诽谤,中伤 ) socialist society and communism. Among his well known essays are: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; Marrakech; and Politics and the English Language. 《1984》 Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in Oceania, one of three inter-continental superstates that divided the world among themselves after a global war. Most of the action takes place in London, the chief city of Airstrip One,[24] the Oceanic province that had once been called England or Britain.[25] Posters of the Party leader, Big Brother, bearing the caption BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, dominate the city, while the ubiquitous telescreen (transceiving television set) monitors the private and public lives of the populace. Background The social class system of Oceania is threefold: (I) the upper-class Inner Party, the elite ruling minority, who make up 2% of the population. (II) the middle-class Outer Party, who make up 13% of the population. (III) the lower-class Proles (from proletariat), who make up 85% of the population and represent the uneducated working class. Background 思想警察的模样 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) An English novel about life in a dictatorship as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs