George Orwell

George Orwell was born in India but was raised as a citizen of the British Empire. 1922 to1927 served in the Imperial Police in Burma. In England he joined the home Guard in World War II and worked for the BBC (British Broadcasting Company). He became a literary and political commentator for a variety of British newspapers and magazines and also contributed to American periodicals.

When Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four were being read everywhere, the world had a sense of him as a prophet. Many publishers rejected Animal Farm once it was around because they said it would have a disturbing influence on Soviet-American relations. But it became very big after all. Before the book Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell was a lonely prophet, but once it came out a lot of people came to him to ask him about it.

George Orwell fought in the Spanish war. He was a world war class writer. Orwell basically considers his family as middle class because it didn’t like considering his family as lower class, and higher class. George has been to a lot of places, such as has traveled around the world, Spain, India, England, Paris, France, Burma. George Orwell started being a writer when he was 20 years old.

George Orwell was a novelist, a journalist, an essayist, a critic, a political polemicist, an occasional poet, and a man whose mark on his contemporaries was and is large and clear and good. Through out his career Orwell expanded on his interest in writing and expanded the people that would be around him. Quote: “Why I Write,” Orwell says that he had known his vocation from the age of five or six but that from the age of seventeen to twenty-four, a period that included all the Burma years, he has sought to escape it, “with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature.”

• He was a socialist
• He was against British imperialism
• During the Spanish civil war, he fought with the republicans
• He was a writer for BBC during world war two
• He was born in India-British colony. Britain imperialized India at that time
• totalitarian government

His real name is Eric Blair but he changed it to George Orwell because it’s more professional. He lived in many places like Burma, Paris and London. While he lived in Burma many people hated him because he was an imperialist, which can be seen in Shooting an Elephant. He spoke of his family members as a “upper lower middle class” which meant he wasn’t that wealthy but also he wasn’t that poor. So he had his necessary things to live a life that he wanted.