The Art of Contemporary English Culture by George H. Gilpin (auth.)

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Newspeak represents the efforts of the state to control thought by limiting communication and by distorting history to the point of a lie. Reality in 1984, as organized by the state, has become a fiction. Newspeak gives managerial tyranny a language of its own with which to stifle the creativity, the passion, and, finally, the rationality in human beings. Winston Smith is denied the right to express himself, to feel love, and, eventually, even to think logically. Orwell's War 33 The reader is shown the nadir of human existence - what William Blake called 'Ulro' - in which all that can be known and felt by a person is mental and social conformity, and in Orwell's vision of the managerial state of Oceania the politics of the Left and the Right in pre-war England have merged.

3 While the 38 Prisoners of War 39 success of Bacon as a painter occurred after the war, he usually cites as influences on his work the Moderns who scrutinized the wasteland of civilization during his formative years. Of T. S. Eliot, he writes, '1 always feel I've been influenced by Eliot. The Waste Land especially and the poems before it have always affected me very much. 4 Bacon also found a point of reference for his work in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, having 'always been possessed by the notion of Africa as a place where people do irremediable things to one another and death stalks in the long dry spikes of the rustling grass'.

All art is propaganda. 'All art is propaganda' - Orwell's disturbing premise is stated like one of the political slogans of his time that he despised, but then he goes on to explain that the basis of Dickens' continuing popularity is the very fact that he cannot be claimed by any single ideology. While Dickens 'has been stolen by Marxists, by Catholics and, above all, by Conservatives' (I, 448-49),3 the fact is, according to Orwell, the novelist essentially lacks a political vision: 'His radicalism is of the vaguest kind, and yet one always knows that it is there....

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