George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 at Motihari in British-occupied India.
While growin up, he attended private schools in Sussex, Wellington and
Eton. He worked at the Imperial Indian Police untill 1927 when he went to
London to study the poverty stricken. He then moved to Paris where he
wrote two lost novels. After he moved back to England he wrote Down and
Out in Paris and London, Burmese Days, A Clergyman?s Daughter and Keep the
Apidistra Flying. He published all four under the psuedonym George
Orwell. He then married Eileen O?Shaughnessy and wrote The Road to Wigan
Pier. Orwell then joined the Army and fought in the Spanish civil war.
He became a socialist revolutionary and wrote Homage to Catalonia, Coming
Up for Air, and in 1943, he wrote Animal Farm. It?s success ended
Orwell?s financial troubles forever. In 1947 and 48 despite Tuberculosis,
he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. He died in 1950 (Williams 7-15). This
essay will show and prove to you that George Orwell?s life has influenced
modern society a great deal.
BIOGRAPHY
In 1903, Eric Arthur Blair was born. Living in India until he was four,
Blair and his family then moved to England and settled at Henley. At the
age of eight, Blair was sent to a private school in Sussex, and he
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