George Orwell (Background)

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