Orwellian vs Kafkaesque - What's the difference?
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Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of British democratic socialist and writer ; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, totalitarianism, surveillance and repression.
* 1954 , Sisley Huddleston, Popular Diplomacy and War :
*:"The Orwellian slogan that "War is Peace" was, consciously or unconsciously, from the beginning adopted by both conflicting groups within the U.N."
* 2014
*:"In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments."
Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
As adjectives the difference between orwellian and kafkaesque
is that orwellian is resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of british democratic socialist and writer ; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, totalitarianism, surveillance and repression while kafkaesque is marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.orwellian
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(wikipedia Orwellian)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* Dickensian * (l)kafkaesque
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Kafkaesque bureaucracies