The View's Of George Orwell

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George Orwell’s views on the future were astonishing but yet very creepy. His book 1984 is a chilling insight into the future. It could only be written with the conviction of George Orwell who believed it could actually happen. In 1903 George Orwell is born in Bengal, India on June 25. His family re-settles in England in 1907. Through 1911-1916 Orwell attends St. Cyprian’s and after that he went to Eton. There he displayed an interest in Writing. He wrote for many magazines and was a business manager of one of the magazine’s. The most significant decisions in his life was to become a part of the imperial police in Burman, instead of going to a University. There watching the subjugated people, made Orwell view societies as the oppressed and the oppressor. “ Socialism Orwell says in The Road to Wigan Pier, means the overthrow of tyranny, at home as well as abroad.” Orwell wrote his first novel in 1934. The novel Burmese Days shows the corruption of imperialism, of the oppressor and the oppressed. Orwell loved the ordinary, in a letter to Henry Miller, he wrote, “ I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always feel uneasy when I get away from the ordinary world where grass is green, stone is hard etc.” Through socialism, Orwell tried to answer three questions. “What are people like? What do they want? Can secular values replace religious values?” Between 1927 and 1932 Orwell lived among the poor in London. During that time he wrote Down and Out in Paris and London, because of his experience with poverty he succeeded his potrail of the poor. After the Spanish war Orwell’s writing changed but not as much as he thought, he said, “In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive bodes, and might have remained almost unaware of my

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Political loyalties.” Without the experience of the Spanish Civil war, Orwell wouldn’t have written Animal Farm and 1984.
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