Across
- 3. One of the inspirations for Orwell's pen name was the name of a local _____.
- 5. If this means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- 6. One of these was circulated and widely misattributed to Orwell.
- 9. The British colony where George Orwell was born.
- 10. Orwell and his wife were betrayed by and forced to flee from __________.
- 12. A phenomenon whose rise undermined complacency in Western power following WW2.
- 14. According to Orwell, whoever controls this, controls the past.
- 17. Orwell sustained a bullet wound to this part of his body during the Spanish Civil War.
- 19. The place where Orwell wrote '1984'.
- 20. Seeing the injustices of this as a police officer in Burma informed Orwell's writing.
Down
- 1. This is abandoned in favour of absolute power in 'Animal Farm'.
- 2. This disgusted Orwell during his time at the BBC.
- 4. An adjective for something particularly nasty, sinister, or destructive. of society
- 7. Italy under Benito Mussolini and Germany under the Nazis, signalled the rise of this political movement.
- 8. Orwell critiqued opponents of this in writing '1984'.
- 11. Orwell advocates for this type of language to be used when writing.
- 13. A city in which Orwell lived among society's poorest people.
- 15. The disease which caused Orwell's death.
- 16. George Orwell is considered the patron saint of this.
- 18. A term coined to describe the struggle between the East and West post-WW2.
- 20. Name for the German bombings which ruined Britain in WW2.