George Orwell
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903
as a small child he was taken
to England by his mother and was
educated first at st. Cyprian's then at Etonl
he could not
stand the pressure to conform to the values
of the English public school tradition
Orwell's last book Nineteen-Eighty-Four
he began to develop an independent-minded personality
professed atheism
and socialism
on leaving school he passed the
India Office examinations for the
Indian Imperial Police opting to serve
in Bruma, in 1927 he went on leave
he wished to break away from British
Imperialism in he wished to "escape from
every form of man's dominion over man"
back in London he started a social
experiment wearing second-hand clothes
he spent short periods living in common
lodging-houses
in this way he experienced poverty
and learned how works
institutions for the poor such as
prisons
lodging-houses
hostels
hospitals
worked
after a period in Paris where he worked
as a dishwasher in a hotel he decided
to begin publishing his works with
the pseudonym of George Orwell
in 1936 he married Eileen
who shared his interests
in literature and socialism
in December 1936 Orwell went to
Catalonia with his wife to report on the
Spanish Civil War
Back in England the Orwells adopted
an infant child and called him Richard
they both had a poor health
when the second World War broke out
Orwell moved to London and
in 1941, he joined the BBC
he also began writing Animal farm which
was published in 1945
was his most original novel it was published
in 1949 and soon became a best-seller
Orwell died of T.B. the following years
Orwell's life and work were marked by the
unresolved conflict between his middle-class
background and education and his
emotional identification with the working class
Orwell believed that the writer
should be independent than no good
writing could come of following a party line
he insisted on
and alert against the increasing
tolerance
justice
decency in human relationship
artificiality of urban civilization
Above all he presented a
devastating critique of totalitarian
he want to help his readers to
recognise tyranny in all its forms