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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. More...
George Orwell Timeline
George Orwell lived between 1903 – 1950. He died at the early age of 47 years due to neglected lung ailment. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair a noted English writer and journalist well known as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture.
At various junctures, he annoyed the more doctrinaire left wingers with his enthusiasm for taking opposing and rebellious views. He was primarily a political writer, but for Orwell his aim was not to promote any certain point of view, but to get at the root of truth; exposing the hypocrisy and injustice prevailed in the Russian society. It was in the nature of George Orwell to try and see a situation from other people’s point of view. He was unhappy at accepting the conventional social wisdom. In fact, he grew to despise his middle class upbringing so much he decided to spend time as a tramp. He wanted to experience life from the view of the gutter.
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Critical Review of George Orwell
George Orwell is a man who struggled against a totalitarianstic government that controls the ideas and thoughts of its citizens. His comparatively small numbers of books have created intense literary and political criticism worldwide. Though Orwell was a socialist, but at the same time he did not fit into any neat ideology.
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