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Biography Of George Orwell Research Paper

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Born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, Bengal, India, Eric Arthur Blair would go on to be known by the pseudonym George Orwell, a British novelist, essayist, and critic ("George Orwell Biography”). Orwell is best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which are now both classics. Although he never entirely abandoned his original name, his first major work in 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London, appeared as the work of George Orwell (Woodcock). His pseudonym would later become so attached to him that few people but his relatives knew his true name (Woodcock). Nowadays, still very few know of his true name. This name change would go on to correspond with a dramatic shift in Orwell’s lifestyle, becoming a political and …show more content…

Although his father stayed behind in India, in 1911, like many others of his age, he went to boarding school in England with his mother upon moving back (Woodcock) ("George Orwell Biography”). Although being unpopular with his peers, he found comfort in reading ("George Orwell Biography”). This love of reading and writing is what would later push him to become an author. Nonetheless, the miseries of those years are told in 1953 in his posthumously published autobiographical essay, Such, Such Were the Joys (Woodcock). Notably, what he lacked in popularity, he made up in intelligence, winning scholarships to to Wellington College and Eton College where he continued his studies ("George Orwell …show more content…

He stayed to join the Republican militia, rising to the rank of second lieutenant while serving on the fronts of Aragon and Teruel (Woodcock). While fighting at Teruel, he was shot in the throat and arm, leaving him seriously wounded and his voice permanently affected (Woodcock) ("George Orwell Biography”). Before being forced to flee in fear of his life, Orwell fought in Barcelona against communists who were trying to suppress their political opponents (Woodcock). He later expresses his subsequent lifelong dread of communism in the vivid account of his experiences in his 1938 novel, Homage to Catalonia, which is considered by many to be one of his best books (Woodcock). This dread of communism is very likely one of the reasons he never took the next step and call himself a

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