A Brief Biography Of George Orwell
GEORGE ORWELL was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. He opted to become a writer in Europe after his service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. In his initially days, he came out with his literary work, Down and Out in Paris and London. |
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Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. He was quite critical of Communism and considered himself as a Socialist. In a war with the Communists, he had to flee to Spain to save his life. Orwell experienced many civil wars in his life which are well documented in his books.
At the time of Second World War, Orwell produced a weekly radio political commentary dealing with the German and Japanese propaganda in India. His wartime experience and work with the BBC gave him a much needed sense of bureaucratic hypocrisy. It was also believed that it was his experience with turned as an inspiration for his invention of “newspeak”, the truth-denying language of Big Brother's rule in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
This great English author, for his entire life frequently questioned all “official” and “accepted” versions of history. During the conclusion of the war in Europe, Orwell expressed his concern and doubt about the Allied account of events and demanded explanation for the following question in his book Notes on Nationalism, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... Is it true about the gas ovens in Poland?"
Among all the Orwell’s writings, his work in1984 has had the most profound influence on historical revisionism. Orwell died in London at the early age of 47 due to neglected lung ailment. He left behind a substantial body of work and a reputation for greatness.
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