Orwell's Revenge (53 page)

as failure,
233

metaphors in,
7
,
256
,
258
,
318
,
336

Orwell's summary of,
122
,
124

political themes of,
3
–4,
88
,
127
,
293

prison scenes in,
6
–7,
127
,
243
,
332
,
336
–37,
339

as prophecy,
235
,
260

self-plagiarism in,
7

significance of,
1
–2,
235
–36,
237

superstates in,
5
–6,
57
,
68
,
242
,
247
–48,
302

telescreen in,
23
–25,
35
,
55
,
57
,
58
,
126
,
222
–23,
235
,
237

Victory Gin in,
2
,
4
,
6
,
7
,
10
,
23
,
24
,
25

writing of,
7
–8,
56
,
252
–53

wrongness of logic of,
2
,
8
,
223
,
233
–40. See
also
Big Brother

Telescreen

headings beginning with Ministry

and specific characters

Nonsense Poetry,
259

Nosey Parker,
35
,
289

Novel Now, The (Burgess),
233
,
346

Noyce, Robert,
272

Obliteration of the Self,
5
,
68
,
235

O'Brien,
5
–7,
9
,
67
–69,
99
,
218
,
228
,
233
,
234
,
243
,
255
,
258
,
260
,
288
,
292
,
310
,
336

Oceania,
2
,
3
,
5
–6,
24
,
68
,
233
,
242

Office of Technology Assessment,
363

Oldspeak:
219
,
255
n Oligarchic collectivism,
250

Oligarchy,
55
–57,
58
,
127
,
246
,
356

“On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory” (Orwell),
34

Open network architecture (ONA),
281
–82

Optical fiber,
238
,
284

Orwell, George: as BBC broadcaster,
9
,
34
–35,
58
,
71
,
72
–73,
125
,
252
,
257
,
292
,
293
,
304
,
355
–56,
357

biography of,
9
,
256
,
258

book reviews by,
44
–45,
56
,
57
,
67
–68,
122
,
219
–20,
297

career of
252
,
265
,
267

commemorative issue of
World Review
on,
220
–21

death ot
1
,
253
,
340

dislike of machine by,
33
–35,
70
,
71
,
221
,
222
,
228
–29,
251
,
329
–30

dislike of radio by,
34
–35,
90
,
222
,
237
,
298

dislikes of,
34
,
237
,
297

doublethink of;
122
–27,
241
–45,
248

and dreams,
320
,
321

as film and theater critic,
34

as good-bad artist,
235
–36

home of, during World War II,
293

“Imaginary Interview with Jonathan Swift” program,
58
,
235
,
257

imprisonment of,
217
,
234
,
332
–33

Jura retreat of,
227

list of writings of,
9
n

pessimism of,
122
,
228
,
233
,
236
,
290
,
310
,
311

physical appearance of,
331

and poverty,
246

real name ot
9
,
234
,
255
,
268

school days of,
10
,
245
–46,
251
,
264
,
301
,
308
,
319

significance ot
234
,
237
,
260

in Spanish Civil War,
234
,
247
,
328
,
356

as “Tory Anarchist,”
252

tuberculosis ot
252
–53,
297
,
356
–57

wife ot
328

word-pictures in writings ot
70

writing of 1984,
7
–8,
56
,
252
–53,
271

wrongness of logic of
2
,
8
,
223
,
233
–40

—works:
Animal Farm
,
34
,
123
,
309

“As I Please,”
291
,
308
,
309
,
321

Burmese Days
,
235
,
246
,
258
,
291
–92,
358

A
Clergyman's Daughter
,
291
,
353
,
358

“Clink,”
217

Coming Up for Air
,
34
–35,
56
\
125
–26,
358

“The Cost of Letters,”
123
–24

Down and Out in Paris and London
,
268
,
358

“England, Your England, “35,
69

“The English People,”
224

“A Hanging,”
258

“In Front of Your Nose,”
240

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
,
34
,
88
,
89
,
125
–26,
219
,
226
,
245
,
246
,
249
,
257
–58,
271
,
339
,
353
,
358

The Lion and the Unicorn
,
100
–101,
224
,
238
,
316

“Literature and Totalitarianism,”
121
–22

“Looking Back on the Spanish War,”
68

“New Words,”
72
,
226
,
251
,
252
,
259

“On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory,”
34

“Poetry and the Microphone,”
73
–75,
125
,
252
,
261

“Politics and the English Language,”
70
,
246
–47

“Politics vs Literature,”
241

“Reflections on Gandhi,”
244

The Road to Wigan Pier
,
33
,
56
,
71
,
122
–23,
225
,
245
,
290
,
295
,
325
,
331
,
343

“Second Thoughts on James Burnham,”
55
–57,
289

“Shooting an Elephant,”
258

“Such, Such Were the Joys,”
245

“You and the Atom Bomb,”
45
.
See also 1984

Orwell: The Authorized Biography
(Shelden),
9

Orwell's Revenge:
author's approach to writing,
8
–10,
256
–60,
287
,
294

author's rationale for,
234
–35,
255
–56

beginning of,
357

Outer Party,
6
,
67
,
319

Personal communications networks (PCNs),
234
,
283

Personal computers,
224
,
278
,
280

Petronius,
89
,
99
,
238

Philco,
276

Phonoautograph,
262

Physical reality,
305
–306

Picturephone,
279

“Poetry and the Microphone” (Orwell),
73
–75,
125
,
252

“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell),
7
,
70
,
246
–47

“Politics vs Literature” (Orwell),
241

Pool, Ithiel de Sola Pool,
228
,
282

Poverty,
6
,
245
–46

Power: A New Social Analysis
(Russell),
56
–57,
67

Press.
See
Newspapers Prison,
6
–7,
127
,
217
,
234
,
243
,
332
–33,
336
–37,
339

Privacy,
227
,
293

Private branch exchanges,
274

Private property,
88
,
247
,
251
,
311
,
312

Proles,
6
,
87
,
127
,
228
,
239
,
290
,
310
,
311
,
319

Proletarian consciousness,
127

Propaganda,
3
,
23
,
24
,
34
,
58
,
69
,
74
,
88
,
99
,
223
,
228
,
252
,
309
,
330
,

Prophecy,
235
,
260
,
346
,
347

Prostitutes,
3
,
258

Punch card,
264
,
269
,
271
–72,
277
,
284
,
359

Race-to-the-swiftest tendency,
247
,
248
,
249

Radcliffe, Mrs.,
358

Radio: collective ownership of,
252

commercialization of,
220

first U.S. radio stations,
266

and hyper-centralized Ministries,
55

as medium of expression,
69

monopoly on,
44
,
124
,
221

Orwell as BBC broadcaster,
9
,
34
–35,
58
,
71
,
72
–73,
125
,
252
,
257
,
355
–56,
357

Orwell's dislike of,
34
–35,
90
,
222
,
237
,
298

Orwell's guarded optimism about,
72
–75

promotion of nationalism by,
309

technological development of,
265
–66

U.S. legislation and regulation,
266
–67,
269
,
270

wartime propaganda on,
309
,
345
.
See also
BBC

Radio Act of 1927,
266
–67,
268
,
360

Radio Corporation of America (RCA),
266
,
276

Radio telephone,
282

Rats,
7
,
339
–40

Reality Control,
2

Rebellion,
6

Rees, Richard,
357

Remington Rand,
276

Rentier capitalism,
249
–50,
251
,
355

Road to Serfdom
(Hayek),
218
,
219
–20

Road to Wigan Pier, The
(Orwell),
33
,
56
,
71
,
122
–23,
225
,
245
,
290
,
295
,
325
,
331
,
343

Roosevelt, Franklin,
267

Runyon, Damon,
247

Russell, Bertrand,
56
–57,
67
,
221

Sarnoff, David,
266

Satellite technologies,
273

Science,
68
,
70
,
71
,
89
,
222
,
233
,
299
,
307
,
308
,
309
,
355
–56

“Science and Politics,”
71

“Science and the People,”
71

Screens.
See
Telescreen

“Second Thoughts on James Burnham” (Orwell),
55
–57,
289

Secret Police,
3
,
35
,
57
,
90
,
237
,
298
,
303

Sedition,
24

Seminals,
279

Shakespeare, William,
225

Shaw, George Bernard,
236

Shelden, Michael,
9
,
235
,
256
,
258

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
358