George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 at Motihari in British-occupied India.
While growin up, he attended private schools in Sussex, Wellington and
Eton. He worked at the Imperial Indian Police untill 1927 when he went to
London to study the poverty stricken. He then moved to Paris where he
wrote two lost novels. After he moved back to England he wrote Down and
Out in Paris and London, Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter and Keep the
Apidistra Flying. He published all four under the psuedonym George
Orwell. He then married Eileen O’Shaughnessy and wrote The Road to Wigan
Pier. Orwell then joined the Army and fought in the Spanish civil war.
He became a socialist revolutionary and wrote Homage to Catalonia, Coming
Up for Air, and in 1943, he wrote Animal Farm. It’s success ended
Orwell’s financial troubles forever. In 1947 and 48 despite Tuberculosis,
he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. He died in 1950 (Williams 7-15). This
essay will show and prove to you that George Orwell’s life has influenced
modern society a great deal.

BIOGRAPHY

In 1903, Eric Arthur Blair was born. Living in India until he was four,
Blair and his family then moved to England and settled at Henley. At the
age of eight, Blair was sent to a private school in Sussex, and he lived
there, except on holidays, until he was thirteen. He went to two private
secondary schools: Wellington(for one term) and Eton (for four and a half
years).
After Eton, Blair joined the Imperial Indian Police and was trained in
Burma. He served there for nearly five years and then in 1927, while hom
on leave, decided not to return. He later wrote that he had come to
understand and reject the imperialism he was serving. He was
struck...between hatred of the empire and rage against the native people
who opposed it, and made his immediate job more difficult. Blair, on his
first six months of release, traveled to the East End to research the
English poor.
In Spri...