The Life and Work of George Orwell :: Biography Biographies Essays

The Life and Work of George OrwellGeorge Orwell is the make of the person behind brilliant kit and caboodle of literature such as Animal Farm and 1984. After my walking(prenominal) study of his book Animal Farm, I decided to look more than closely into the person who wrote that brilliant allegory. I also tried to make why, and how it was possible for a man raised far from communist/ totalitarian regime could describe it so precisely in such an dreadful prophetic way.Born under the name of Eric Blair on June 25 1903, in India in the family of an imperial Officer, after going to boarding school and consequently to Eton, he decided to stop with his education and enlisted in the Indian Imperial Police at the age of 20. He served in Burma for 5 age and later described that period as the most miserable times and that he hated being the bully arresting people to be beaten. After he left Burma Eric wanted to experience the life of the oppressed, so he moved to Paris disguised as a unsettled poor. He started living the life of tramps and all kinds of poor homeless, but curtly he found himself in their true situation, without a serious job, Eric was force to live on the streets and to make only enough not to starve. At that time he wrote his first book Down and Out in Paris and London and was able to publish it under the pen name of George Orwell. The book was a success, and after that he wrote and published in terzetto years three more books Burmese days, a Clergymans daughter and backup the Aspidistra Flying.In 1937 Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and, concord to Judy P. Sopronyis article George Orwell on the Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four, got really entangled in the idea of Socialism, he was thrilled by the idea of everyone treating to each one other as equals and his log sense of guilt for being natural in the upper-middle class, as he called it, had found its cure. It wasnt long before he found out that regardless of how flawless a n ideology was, people could tip it viciously in order to make it work for their own political ambitions. His personal experience was involved in that notion, because after being true-blue to, and fighting on the side of the Republicans, he was quickly turned into the opposition for no apparent reason, and was forced to return to England to avoid arrest.