George Orwell, The Political Literary Master Eric Arthur Blair was born June 25,1903 in Molinari, Bengal, India. Better known to the world by his pen name, George Orwell, he was one of the most politically influential writers of his time. Orwell was deemed a revolutionary socialist and used his writing to persuade the people. Even with all of his published success, Orwell’s life was filled with struggle and sadness. Orwell grew up in a small village outside of London called Henley. He was born into a lower-middle class family. His father was a minor British official and his mother, of French background, was the daughter of an unsuccessful teak merchant. They were distinguished by the lack of money and desire to be of higher social standings. At eight years old, his parents sent him to a boarding school in London called St. Cyprians. Here is where Orwell learned at an early age the distinctions between the English class system. He spent …show more content…
One of the most prominent times in Orwell’s life came when he volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He fought for a group called POUM, the worker’s party of Marxist unification, “that was a revolutionary anti-Stalinist Communist party that was strongly influenced by the political ideas of Leon Trotsky”. This time would seemingly fuel Orwell’s anti-authotorian principles and drive his ambitions for justice, liberty., and a more humane world. Orwell was forced to leave the fight, when he took a bullet to the throat. Shortly after, POUM had been suppressed and many of his colleagues arrested. Orwell and his wife had to flee to France. Using these life changing experiences, Orwell writes and publishes, Homage to Catalonia. Orwell states, “ This war in which I played so ineffectual a part, has left me with memories which are mostly evil and yet I do not wish that I had missed it.”(Scott-Kilvert