GEORGE ORWELL:

EARLY CHILDHOOD

• Born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India
• His birth name is Eric Arthur Blair
• His father was in the British Military and was stationed in India
• His mother moved him to England for education in 1904

EDUCATION

• Was shipped off to a Boarding school
• Other students bullied him for having a bland personality
• He read books since no one liked him
• Orwell did well in school and was usually attending on scholarships
• He observed that the rich were treated better than the poor

EARLY ADULTHOOD

• He joined the India Imperial Police Force for 5 years
• In 1927, he quit to become an Author
• Orwell moved to Paris in order to pursue his dream
• He worked many low-wage jobs in order to scrape by

Down and Out In Paris and London

• Published in 1933
• It was his first major book
• He used the Pseudonym George Orwell
• It was about his time as a struggling author

POLITICAL VIEWS

• He started writing highly political books in the 30s
• "Burmese Days" shows the darker parts of British colonialism (1934)
• In 1936 he wrote about poverty and unemployment in N. Ireland
• He switched from an Anarchist to a Socialist in the early 30s

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• Went to support a socialist movement
• Got shot and developed tuberculosis
• Became an anti- Stalin person during his time in Spain
• Was charged with treason after leaving the country

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WORLD WAR II

• Producer of BBC news commentary
• Ended up being a propagandist
• Hated being a propagandist so he quit
• Became editor of a Socialist newspaper

ANIMAL FARM

• The book was published in 1945
• It was a satire of Soviet Russia
• It showed Orwell's anti-Stalin views
• His first big hit novel

"1984" TIL DEATH

• Wrote "1984" in 1949
• Dealt with government control
• Showed how government control is a bad thing
• Last book before dying from Tuberculosis in 1950

CITATION

• See on Scoology