George Orwell Research Paper

George Orwell was born June 25, 1903 in India as Arthur Blair. He wore many different hats but is best known for his work, writing Animal Farm and 1984 and hosting and producing on BBC radio during WWII. He was best known for his strong opinions on society standards and major political movements of his time and made that the main facet of his work.

George was the son of a British civil servant, and spent his first days in India, where his father was stationed. He later moved back to England with his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England about a year after his birth and settled in Henley-on-Thames. His father stayed behind in India and rarely visited. (His younger sister, Avril, was born in 1908.) Orwell didn't really

He noticed that through this experience, he was treated differently than most of the richer students, because he got into the school on a scholarship. He did struggle in many social aspect but he excelled in the classroom. While there Orwell dedicated himself more to reading widely than passing exams and wanting to study actual course material. Rather than going on to a University (which he had many scholarship offers) he took the Indian Civil Service exams and became a policeman in Burma in 1921 and thus he became a police officer.

From this experience he was able to write his first novel Burmese Days, which was published in New York in 1934. This wasn't his first official work though. His first book was the non-fictional Down and Out in Paris and London which was published in 1933, and was based on his experiences after he left the police including his experiences with his work, love life and many other facets of his life, turing from young adult to an full

Orwell then moved to Paris in 1928, he lived for about a year and a half in Paris, writing novels and short stories which no one would publish. He started to run out of money and he was pushed into poverty again. He saying in a quote “I had several years of fairly severe poverty during which I was, among other things, a dishwasher, a private tutor and a teacher in cheap private schools.”

Later in his life, four years to be exact he wrote the essay Why I Write, he was quoted to say that ‘what I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art’. His political convictions, which have been described as democratic socialism, inform books such as The Road to Wigan Pier, a documentary account of poverty in Britain. Its second half, critical of Socialist intellectuals who supported Stalin, was enormously controversial, as was his account of the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia(1938), which criticises leftist infighting in the context of a broader struggle against