George Orwell: Life of the Writer

A detailed Summary of George Orwell: Life of the Writer

George Orwell is perhaps best known to the public for his enormously

successful novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and also for Animal Farm. Also,

Orwell's reputation also rests as much upon his work as a critic of

literature, of manners, of politics- in a word, of life. He was always

concerned with the effects of class distinctions, with socialism- given the

promise inherent in its ideals and the disappointment of its practice.

Eric Arthur Blair (later George Orwell) was born in 1903 in the Indian

Village Motihari, which lies near the border of Nepal. At that time India

was a part of the British Empire, and Blair's father Richard ,held a post as

an agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. In 1907

when Eric had about eight years ,the family returned to England and

lived at Henley, though the father continued to work in India until he

retired in 1912. With some difficulty despite awarded scholarships ,Blair's

parents sent their son to a private preparatory school in Sussex at the age

of eight. During Blair's time spent at Crossgates, an English prepatory

school, he developed his cynicism towards the social system of England.

As a scholarship student, he was subjected to ridicule from the schoo

would be absurd. Therefore, Blair had a small interest in school. One of

every child's way of thinking. Therefore, Blair felt that many things in life

Obrero de Unificacion de Marxista) to fight for socialism and against

that socialism in action was humanly possible. This was a war worthy to

Hitler, the Spanish civil war, etc., Orwell was forced to become a

After his death, Orwell was claimed to be the "conscience of his

Home Guard, a wartime civilian body for local defense. In 1943 he left

because it distracted him from his true calling: to write.

work for five years. However, this was untrue to a certain extent: Blair

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Category: English

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