1984+(fascinating+tidbits)

Heres a page for any interesting facts about Orwell, or 1984 that are floating about. Favorite Quotes, general enjoyment. Whatever...

 -O'Brien was partly inspired by the character of Gletkin from Arthur Koestler's novel //Darkness at Noon.// He also bore some resemblance to Brendan Bracken, the Minister for Information that Orwell worked under during the Second World War. As well as sharing the same initials and office number (Room 101), they shared similar approaches to censorship. The torture scenes (undertaken by O'Brien) were influenced in part by the stories leaked out of Soviet Russia of the punishments given by the government to political prisoners in mental hospitals and the Gulags