![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1936, he enlisted in a socialist militia to fight against the fascist party led by General Francisco Franco. Before World War II, Orwell’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War explains his knowledge of warfare and his fear of everlasting war between nations. Just as Smith faced the issue of knowingly altering the past, Orwell struggled with producing shows and information that would stretch the evident truth in order to draw more support from his audience.įrom this, his objective at the BBC was to make the propaganda coming out of the station “slightly less disgusting that it might otherwise have been” (Secino). Winston Smith had a very similar situation as Orwell as he worked in the Ministry of Truth which “concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts” (Orwell 4), but in truth, Winston’s primary responsibility was to rewrite articles to correct what the Party deemed as mistakes and replaced them with falsified information. However, in his line of work of voicing his opinions, he struggled with censorship coming from the United Kingdom’s government department, the Ministry of Information (Secino). ![]() Get your custom essay onįor the three years he worked there, he was in charge of broadcasting propaganda as a ‘strong anti-fascist signal to India while at the same time attempting to strengthen India’s loyal support of the British war effort’ (Secino). ![]()
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