His character, ideas and the typical topics he wrote about.

3) The most important literal works of George Orwell

4) Bookreports on some of his books.

a) Down And Out In Paris And London

1903 Eric Arthur Blair is born on the 25th of june at Motihari, Bengal in India as the son of Richard Walmesley Blair (a civil servant) and Ida Mabel Blair.

1904 In this year he is brought to England by his mother, where they

settle down in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

1908 - 1911 Eric gets educated at Sunnylands, an Anglican school in

1911 He leaves Sunnylands and starts at St. Cyprian's School.

1912 Eric's father retires from the India Civil Service and returns to England.

The family now moves to Shiplake near Henley.

1914 Eric Arthur Blair gets his first work, Awake Young Men Of England

1916 Eric leaves the St. Cyprian's School.

1917 He starts at Eton College as King's Scholar.

Snowball: Orwell describes Snowball as a pig very similar to Napoleon at least in the early stages. Both pigs wanted a leadership position in the "new" economic and political system (which is actually counterdictory to the whole supposed system of equality). But as time goes on, both eventually realise that one of them will have to step down. Orwell says that the two were always arguing. "Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted to oppose it." Later, Orwell makes the case stronger. "These two disagreed at every point disagreement was possible." Soon the differences, like whether or not to build a windmill, become to great to deal with, so Napoleon decides that Snowball must be eliminated. It might seem that this was a spontaneous reaction, but a careful look tells otherwise. Napoleon was setting the stage for his own domination long before he really began "dishing it out" to Snowball. For example, he took the puppies away from their mothers in efforts to establish a private police force. These dogs would later be used to eliminate Snowball, his arch-rival. Snowball represents Leo Dawidowitsch Trotsky, the arch-rival of Stalin in Russia. The parallels between Trotsky and Snowball are uncanny. Trotsky too, was exiled, not from the farm, but to Mexico, where he spoke out against Stalin. Stalin was very weary of Trotsky, and feared that Trotsky supporters might try to assassinate him. The dictator of Russia tried hard to kill Trotsky, for the fear of losing leadership was very great in the crazy man's mind. Trotsky also believed in Communism, but he thought he could run Russia better than Stalin. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by the Russian internal police, the NKVD-the pre-organisation of the KGB. Trotsky was found with a pick axe in his head at his villa in Mexico.

George Orwell wrote this book in the years 1946 to 1949, just after the Second World War. In "1984" he describes a Communist system, but it could also be Fascist one - it is a general description of a totalitarian system. Because of that, many parallels to other systems, especially to Nazi-Germany, can be seen: one leader who is mystified ; the Inner Party members, who have a lot of privileges ; the Thought Police - the GESTAPO ; the telescreen - the Volksempfanger ; the Spies - the HJ or BDM ; and many more. A very interesting fact is also the existence of one enemy who is blamed for everything. Orwell chose the name Goldstein for his enemy which is a Jewish name because of the fact that Jews were "the" enemy in Nazi-Germany and they were also prosecuted in Communist -Russia.

1947 On Christmas Eve of this year Orwell enters Hairmyres Hospital, near

he is transferred to University College Hospital in

The book consists of 38 chapters. The first 25 chapters are about Orwell's experience as a plongeur in Paris, and the next chapters describe his experience as a tramp in England.

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Approximate Word count = 11332
Approximate Pages = 45 (250 words per page double spaced)