Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome back! Today we’re looking at the life of George Orwell, and his two most famous works, Animal Farm and 1984.

We’re all familiar with these stories. They’re the classic dystopian warnings that everyone loves to quote out of context. The word Orwellian is literally in the dictionary now, referring to his depictions of futuristic totalitarian states.

And yet, despite this widespread popularity, how many of us have actually read these two books? Or maybe we just read Animal Farm one time in school many years ago, and its kinda foggy in our memory now.

These are two books that everyone needs to read in their life. And let’s be honest. Especially now.

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00:00 Why Read Orwell?
02:24 Intro Song
02:47 The Life of George Orwell
11:18 Understanding Authoritarianism
12:17 Animal Farm
12:43 The Story Itself
17:02 The Interpretation
19:31 Film Adaptions
21:25 1984 - Big Brother is Watching
22:19 The Story Itself
28:54 The Interpretation
32:50 Film Adaptions
34:06 Orwellian Books for Orwellian Times