Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
George Orwell
(1903-1950) - Coggle Diagram
George Orwell
(1903-1950)
Life
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, he was the son of a minor colonial official.
On leaving college, he started to work for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (1922-1927).
Orwell was educated at Eton, in England where he began to develop an independent-minded personality, indifference to accepted values, and professed atheism and socialism.
-
Once back in England, he devoted himself to writing full time, publishing his works with the pseudonym of George Orwell.
Works
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933): a non-fiction narrative in which he described his experience among the poor.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Social themes
-
Criticism of totalitarianism, the violation
of liberty and tyranny in all its forms.