George Orwell has written two compelling novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a totalitarian society, and follows the journey of Winston Smith as he betrays Big Brother and the Party with a companion named Julia, resulting in their capture. Animal Farm is set on an oppressed farm, where the farmer, Mr. Jones, neglects his animals causing the animals to rebel and form their own legislature within the farm. When approached from the appropriate lens, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four embody the imperialism which the author, George Orwell, witnessed in his childhood and experienced in his adolescence when he fought in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell saw the manipulative ways of a totalitarian government during the war, and portrayed this through the novels Nineteen Eighty-Four where the government's quest for power was more detrimental to the civilians than the war itself. Through the manipulative influence of the government, civilians were consequently doing the will of their leaders, rather than for the will of themselves. Thus, resulting in a dystopian society. Many examples of the quest for power are portrayed through use of propaganda by the groups of leaders in both novels. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Party is in absolute control, likewise in Animal Farm the Pigs are in total control. Both demonstrate similar tactics to attain this power, and these tactics are seen through the theme, knowledge is the key to power. The main goal of the Party is to diminish the possibility of independent thought, in order to prevent a revolution. Newspeak plays an important role in doing so. Members of The Ministry of Truth are continuously attempting to cut words out of existence. If there are no words to describe feelings which oppose the party, then it is not possible for an opposition to take place and therefore making thoughtcrime impossible. The Party also strongly believes that, "Who controls the past ¦ controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,  (Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four 37). The Ministry of Truth is the vehicle for the alteration of the past. This department changes everything that the Party has ever mispredicted or essentially has made the Party unappealing. Even though there are no laws, keeping record of history is punishable by death. The Party does not allow people to keep their own journal because then they no longer have control over history. The lies conjured by the party result in an ignorant society, where it is impossible for any opposition to occur. Similarly, in Animal Farm, the Pigs use knowledge as a way to attain and maintain their power throughout the novel. At the beginning they choose to stop educating the other animals. By not educating the other animals, the Pigs are the only ones who know how to read and write, limiting the other animals of their accessibility of the past. This also keeps the Pigs at an advantage over everyone else, because they