Wasn't George Orwell just a pseudonym for Aldous Huxley? And wasn't Aldous Huxley a decendant of the robber baron families that sought to bring forth a new world order?
All this to say, I think he was writing an instructional manual more than a warning.
Aldous Huxley and Orwell were both from England, but they wrote rather different things even though they were both writing dystopian novels around the same time. Huxley wrote Brave New World and other works like The Doors of Perception. Orwell wrote the mentioned 1984, Animal Farm, and others. If you read 1984 vs Brave New World, the styles of writing are different and their ideas of how a dystopian world of the future would look like were really very different. I always preferred Huxley myself, and he died like 15 years after Orwell I think.
When he was in his late twenties, Huxley acquired a position at Eton College in Berkshire, where he taught French for a year. He was reportedly a nervous and incompetent teacher who had little to no authority over his students. One of his students was Eric Arthur Blair, who later took on the pen name George Orwell and also became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Orwell, who was greatly inspired by Huxley’s works, said that Huxley was not a good teacher but was a brilliant speaker and had extensive knowledge of French.
Orwell and Huxley remained friends and respected each other for the rest of their lives.
Wasn't George Orwell just a pseudonym for Aldous Huxley? And wasn't Aldous Huxley a decendant of the robber baron families that sought to bring forth a new world order?
All this to say, I think he was writing an instructional manual more than a warning.
Aldous Huxley and Orwell were both from England, but they wrote rather different things even though they were both writing dystopian novels around the same time. Huxley wrote Brave New World and other works like The Doors of Perception. Orwell wrote the mentioned 1984, Animal Farm, and others. If you read 1984 vs Brave New World, the styles of writing are different and their ideas of how a dystopian world of the future would look like were really very different. I always preferred Huxley myself, and he died like 15 years after Orwell I think.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/30/aldous-huxley-was-george-orwells-french-teacher-at-eton-college/
Ty for the refresher!