George Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950). Noted as a political and cultural commentator, he is among the most widely admired English-language writers of the twentieth century. During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism; however, contemporary readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist. His most successful books are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The writer is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language. His concern over the power of language to shape reality is also reflected ∈ his invention of “Newspeak”, the official language of the imaginary country of Oceania ∈ his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Newspeak” is a variant of English ∈ which vocabulary is strictly limited by government ordering. The goal is to make it increasingly difficult to express ideas that contradict the official line – with the final aim of making it impossible even to conceive such ideas. A number of words and phrases that Orwell invented ∈Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered the standard vocabulary, such as “memory hole”, “Big Brother”, “Room 101”, “doublethink”, “thought police” and “newspeak”.
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De acordo com o texto, George Orwell, pseudônimo adotado pelo escritor britânico Eric Arthur Blair,
