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George Orwell: Life and Works Overview

George Orwell, born as Eric Arthur Blair, was a British novelist and essayist known for his satirical and dystopian works criticizing totalitarianism. Some key facts about his life include that he was born in India to British civil servant parents, wrote under the pen name George Orwell, fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War where he was wounded, and authored renowned novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four that expressed his strong anti-authoritarian views through allegory and predictive fiction of oppressive governments. He lived much of his life in poverty and struggled with tuberculosis before passing away in 1950.

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George Orwell: Life and Works Overview

George Orwell, born as Eric Arthur Blair, was a British novelist and essayist known for his satirical and dystopian works criticizing totalitarianism. Some key facts about his life include that he was born in India to British civil servant parents, wrote under the pen name George Orwell, fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War where he was wounded, and authored renowned novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four that expressed his strong anti-authoritarian views through allegory and predictive fiction of oppressive governments. He lived much of his life in poverty and struggled with tuberculosis before passing away in 1950.

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GeorgeOrwell

TheLifeofGeorgeOrwell
EricArthurBlairwasborninMotihari,Bengal,India,in1903
HisfatherwasanEnglishCivilServantwhoworkedinIndia.
HelivedinIndiaforaboutayearbutthenmovedtoEnglandwithhis
mother.
BlairwroteunderthepennameGeorgeOrwelltoavoid
embarrassinghisfamilyasmanyofhisbooksreflectedhislivingin
povertyformuchofhisyounglife.
HewasonpartialscholarshipatanEnglishboardingschool
calledSt.Cyprian'sin1911.Thisiswherehenoticedthatthericher
studentsweretreatedmuchbetterthanthescholarshipstudents.
OrwellwasamemberoftheIndianImperialPoliceForcefrom
1922to1927.Hethenlefttopursueacareerasawriter.
Hewrotecuttingsatiricalfictiontoexpresshisstrongopinions
onpolitics.Manyofhisworkswereaboutimperialism,fascismand
communism.Hisbestknownbooksare
AnimalFarm
and
NineteenEightyFour.

HemarriedEileenO'Shaughnessyin1936andtheyadoptedRichardHoratioBlairin
1944.Shortlyafter,in1945,O'Shaughnessydied.Itwassaidthatthetwohadanopen
marriage.
InDecember1936,OrwelltravelledtoSpaintofightintheSpanishCivilWar.Hefought
againstGeneralFranciscoFranco.Therehewasshotinthearmandthroat.
In1938,hewasdiagnosedwiththe(atthattime)incurabletuberculosis.Hesuffered
fromthisfortheremainderofhislife.
HewasaBBCproducer(picturedabove)in1941.WhentheSecondWorldWarhit,he
beganwritingpropagandabuthateditandlefttoeditasocialistnewspaperin1943.
OrwellmarriedSoniaBrownellinOctober1949.
HediedafterhislongbattlewithtuberculosisJanuary21,1950.

YouhavemadeanindeliblemarkonEnglishliterature...youareamongthefew
memorablewritersofyourgeneration.
DesmondMacCarthyinamessagetoOrwelldaysbeforehedied

FamousWorks
DownandOutinParisandLondon,
(1933)
Goodpartautobiographical.WhileinParis,Orwellfindsthathehasnothing,nomoney.Thenhe
getsrobbedleavinghimincompletepoverty.

BurmeseDays
,(1934)
TakesplaceduringtheBritishruleinBurma.Flory,awhitemerchant,meetsDrVeraswami,a
blackpoliticalenthusiast.Togethertheymustbecomemembersatanallwhiteclub.

TheRoadtoWiganPier
,(1937)
Basedonhisownexperiencesasamiddleclassworkingman.Manydescriptionsofsocial
injustice,slumhousing,miningconditions,squalor,hungerandthegrowingunemployment.

AnimalFarm
,(1945)verysuccessful
Farmanimalsaretiredofservinghumanssotheybuildtheirowncommunity.Thepigsslogan
is,"Allanimalsareequal,butsomeanimalsaremoreequalthanothers."Asatirethatshows
thecommunismofStalinintheSovietUnionasfarmanimals.

NineteenEightyFour
,(1949)verysuccessful
Dystopianfuturewithoppressivegovernment.Ithasbecomemoreandmorefamousovertime
becauseofhowwellOrwellpredictedthefutureinonly1949.

LucyFountain

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