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Apr 20, 2018
To get the real meaning of this work of Wells, read the short "Critics" comment up on this page, a quote from the Guardian. That's the meaning. Otherwise, Wells was working on orders, he was a Gov. propagandist, whose role was to show in "fiction" form the planned future. Wells was given a multi-story house with typists; he walked around and dictated his ideas. He was a squat man with a squeaky voice; he married several times, but had queer habits, and so he had his divorced wives sign contracts of secrecy as to his husband-habits. He came from a poor family, his mother was a servant in a rich house, he saw the working class' hard life and dreaded to fall into the same way of life. He had some talent, though, and was used to convey propaganda into the public's mind in the form of seemingly fictional, but in fact, symbolic messages. In fact, Orwell (Eric Blair) was a Gov. propagandist too, but he jumped out of that role, and showed us the planned future in an also symbolic but different way. "1984" and "Animal Farm" are master works, but they carry a higher meaning.