Political messages in Orwell’s works’

The British author George Orwell achieved prominence in the late 1940ies as the author of two brilliant satires attacking totalitarianism. The novels, documentaries, essays, and criticism he wrote during the 1930’s and later established him as one of the most important and influential voices of the century. His reputation as a novelist was consolidated however, with the publication of “the Animal Farm” and “1984” who where inspired by his detestation for totalitarianism. Both these works, describe the means in which a totalitarian regime comes into power and the means employed by it in order to maintain itself into power, with an, more than, obvious resemblance to the Russian revolution. In effect, Orwell tried to distinguish the difference between socialism and communism or any other totalitarian political movement and prove with his narrations that the greatest enemy of all social movements where the absolute power that was given to the party leaders.
Orwell's will was to ...