Margaret Atwoods novel Alias Grace takes us back to 1848 to revisit the story of the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century Grace Marks a pretty sixteen year old servant girl Marks is accused of murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear and his alleged mistress Nancy Montgomery with the help of a fellow servant James McDermott Both Marks and McDermott were captured a couple of days later in the United States and brought back to Toronto where they were charged and found guilty of premeditate
George Orwell grew up a devout and dedicated socialist in the British colonies of India and even when he eventually studied and lived in England He was loyal to the beliefs and followings of socialisms fathers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the authors of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital However when Orwell saw the ideals of Socialism turned into vicious Communism taking advantage of and abusing the lower classes that it was intended to help he could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties