Research Paper On George Orwell

Born on the 25th of June in the year 1903 in Motihari, India, George Orwell was not given the name George Orwell at birth; his real name being Eric Arthur Blair. His father was an official who worked for the Indian Civil Service. Later in the year of 1911, he was sent off to be educated in England. Writing came to George very early within his life and he notes that writing was something he always wanted. It is as if he was born with a career being the only thing he was meant to do in life. He said, “Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”

Orwell’s career

He writes political novels to help guide the world into a certain direction. Nineteen Eighty-Four can be seen as a warning to society to make sure that the contents found within the novel do not jump off the page and make it into reality. Orwell wrote that there four great motives for writing and one of them was political purpose to which he says, “Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.” Orwell used Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning and a way for him to help guide society in the direction which he believes is

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

With these tips, Orwell was effectively breaking away from the current writing form of the day, and trying to help other writers stray away from the “ugly and inaccurate” writing.

Taking into account Orwell’s “precautions” for writing, I began to analyze his works and see if he followed his own rules. While reading Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both novels are straight forward at most times, however would dabble into areas that may confuse the reader who are not familiar with politics. However, Orwell tries his best to use simple words to express these enormous ideas about politics. Animal Farm is a great example of his fifth rule. He takes this situation about politics, but expresses in a way that is easy for everyone to understand—with animals on a