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What Is George Orwell Really Smart

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George Orwell was a very famous author, he developed most of his fame in 1946 when he wrote the book Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a book about how animals can really talk and they want to rebell against man, and run the farm themselves. Orwell was actually really smart. The story was so much more than that, he hid a metaphor behind it. Do you wonder what his metaphor was? In his life he strived hard to have a good education. Orwell was actually born to the name of Eric Blair, then later decided to use George Orwell as his pen name. “He attended reputable educational institutions such as the St Cyprian’s School, Wellington College and Eton College on scholarships” (famousauthors.org). By knowing a lot about the war and being in it himself, Orwell wanted to express what he knew. …show more content…

Orwell was married twice, his first wife passed away; and he remarried. He had one adopted son Richard Horatio Blair. Orwell was strongly opinionated with what he wrote. Orwell was extraordinarily smart, he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921 in Eton. “Although Orwell is acknowledged mainly for his novels by the present-day reader, his essays and journalistic work is evidence of his deep interest and understanding of the politics of his era” (famousauthors.org). George Orwell has had many publications before Animal Farm, but this one sent him to fame. In the book Animal Farm it tells about how animals feel, and how they face cruelty everyday. Orwell wrote a famous article Why I Write; to tell exactly why he wrote animal farm and all of his other works. There was many warning signs in Animal Farm showing problems with democracy. The book shows a hidden meaning in the world, and how things could eventually be. George Orwells personal background, and knowledge of problems of the world influenced him to publish Animal Farm in

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