2007-09-30 05:36:29 · 12 answers · asked by chrisyrusell 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
wdf...no
2007-09-30 05:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by chris 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think you can blame Orwell, blame is a totally inappropriate word, but ironically there is a link.
Quoting from ref below:
Orwell joined the Imperial Police Force in Burma and spent five years there in the 1920s.
Orwell based his first novel, Burmese Days, on his experiences in the Far East, but it was his later novels such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four that would turn him into one of the most respected and visionary writers of the twentieth century.
It is a particularly uncanny twist of fate that these three novels effectively tell the story of Burma's recent history. The link begins with Burmese Days, which chronicles the country's period under British colonialism. Not long after Burma became independent from Britain in 1948, a military dictator sealed off the country from the outside world, launched 'The Burmese Way to Socialism', and turned Burma into one of the poorest countries in Asia. The same story is told in Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegorical tale about a socialist revolution gone wrong in which a group of pigs overthrow the human farmers and run the farm into ruin. Finally, in Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell's description of a horrifying and soulless dystopia paints a chillingly accurate picture of Burma today, a country ruled by one of the world's most brutal and tenacious dictatorships.
2007-09-30 13:59:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean that George Orwell's book "1984" has somehow got something to do with what's happening right now in Burma; then my answer is no.
George Orwell was a lifelong 'socialist' he just wanted to remind folk of what happens when you slip too far to the left and get a commie load of creaps, the Pigs, [Animal Farm] take over the place.
etc.
See if you can find anything in these links to justify the notion that GeoOrwell had more than just a fleeting influence on the political life of anywhere....!
P.S. during WW-2 he was working for SIS [British Intelligence] do not know in what capacity - probably Ministry of Propoganda and Lies etc....
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2007-09-30 12:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting question, however if we compare his actions for and against Burma, I think his good deeds vastly surpass his bad. Especially by writing "Burmese Days" and other essays. His position in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma might very well be one of the main sources for his radical views and hate against imperialism.
George Orwell is my favorite author of all time. I have read "Burmese Days", and a related essay, "A Hanging". You can read Burmese Days and all his other works for free! Just click the link below.
2007-09-30 12:55:22 · answer #4 · answered by hungry hippo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not. Do you think authors from five decades ago have the power to affect the state of current affairs in an ENTIRE country? He was a great author, but his works reflected the Russian Communism, not an outline of how to rule a country.
2007-09-30 12:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
er Burma no longer exists
2007-09-30 15:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by naplusultra 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thats ridiculous, thats like saying the guy who takes the photograph is responsible for the crime.
2007-09-30 12:38:30 · answer #7 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi Chris!
I see you have nothing to do to-day either.
Nice intellectual question. Bet it shows up the great mass of uneducated English people!
Kind regards,
Eric Blair.
2007-09-30 12:45:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. He's been dead for years. I don't see the connection. Could you explain further?
2007-09-30 12:38:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
THE BURMESE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.OUR GEORGE NEVER WENT THERE.
2007-09-30 12:42:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋