Anthony Stewart 
George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency [PDF ebook] 

In its analysis of Animal Farm , Burmese Days , Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four , this book argues that George Orwell»s fiction and non-fiction weigh the benefits and costs of adopting a doubled perspective — in other words, seeing one»s own interests in relation to those of others — and illustrate how decency follows from such a perspective. Establishing this relationship within Orwell»s work, Anthony Stewart demonstrates how Orwell»s characters» ability to treat others decently depends upon the characters» relative capacities for doubleness.