Statue of George Orwell Statue of George Orwell A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with Orwell's words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", from an unused preface to "Animal Farm". The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, said of Orwell and the statue that "He reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" on a room he had worked in whilst
Nineteen Eighty-Four toured the UK and played an extended run in London's West End. The play opened on Broadway in 2017. In the decades since the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", there have been numerous comparisons to Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World", which had been published 17 years earlier, in 1932. They are both predictions of societies dominated by a central government and are both based on extensions of the trends of their times. However, members of the ruling class of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" use brutal force, torture and mind control to keep individuals in line, while rulers in "Brave New World" keep