- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
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- A Lover's Complaint
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- The Winter's Tale
Despite his optimistic trust in the dignity of human beings, Orwell remains unforgivingly critical of journalists and professional politicians. He concludes that this war, despite its elevated ideological premises, shares the same dynamics as most other conflicts and, therefore, is not any more moral in its foundations than other wars. In particular, Orwell denounces the gap between the lives of ordinary soldiers and those of the people commenting on events (journalists) or actively influencing them (politicians or, as he cynically calls them, “patriots”). This gap in both knowledge and personal sacrifice has concrete effects, as it tends to place most…