2. Who is George Orwell?
Born on June 25,1903 in Motihari
, Bengal, in a British colony of India. Eric Arthur
Blair, known by his pen name George
Orwell, was an English novelists and journalist. His
father Richard, worked for the Opium
Department of the Civil Service. His
mother, Ida, was the one whom had brought
him to England. And didn’t see his father 3
years later. Eric also had an older sister named
Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril.
3. Education
At the age of five, Eric attended a small
Anglican parish school . He wrote a paper that
was really great that he impressed the
teachers. Two years later he was
recommended to the headmaster of one of the
most successful preparatory in England at that
moment, St Cyprian’s School, in
Eastbourne, Sussex. He later then wrote
“Such, Such were the joys,” and did well
enough to earn Wellington and Eton colleges. It
was clear that Eric was disliked by some of his
teachers.
4. After college
After he finished his studies, his family
was to insufficient to pay his tuition, so he
joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
He then resigned and returned to England
in 1928 having grown to hate imperialism. In
1933 that’s when he adopted his pen
name. he chose a name that stressed his
deep lifelong affection for the English
tradition writing. George was the name of
the patron saint in England and the River
Orwell was one of his beloved English sites.
5. Continued…
Orwell lived in poverty for
years, sometimes even a homeless. He then
found work as a school teacher. Later he
encountered with a part-time job in a
secondhand bookshop.
6. Spanish Civil War
Orwellvolunteered to fight for the
republicans against Franco’s Nationalist
uprising. He also joined the militia of the
party in Spain. Orwell was shot in the neck
on May 20, 1937 and so he writes a short
essay “Wounded by a Fascist Snipe,”
7. World war and after
Orwell kept supporting himself by writing
book reviews for the New English Weekly until
1940. during World War II he was a member of
the Home Guard. He knows he was shaping
propaganda and so he decided to resign
even though it was a good pay. He became
a literary editor of Tribune. In 1944 Orwell
finished his allegory Animal Farm, which was
published the following year with great and
popular success. In 1949 his best-known
work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four
novel was published.
8. Continued…
Between 1936 and 1945 Orwell was
married to Eileen O’Shaughnessy, with
whom he adopted a son Richard Horatio
Blair at age 1. she dies in 1945 during an
operation. In 1949, shortly before his
death, he married Sonia Brownell. Orwell
dies at the age of 46 from tuberculosis. He
was in and out of hospitals for the last three
years of his life.
9. Some of his work
are the following
…
Animal Farm
Burmese days
The Road
1984
And many other essays
