George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 at Motihari in British-occupied India. While growing
up, he attended private schools in Sussex, Wellington and Eton. He worked at the
Imperial Indian Police until 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 Aspidistra Flying. He published all four under the pseudonym 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).
George Orwell's life has influenced modern society a great deal. 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 lived there, except on holidays, until he was thirteen. He
went to two private secondary schools: Wellington (for one term) and Eton (for four and
a half years). After Eton, Blair joined the Imperial Indian Police and was trained in
Burma. He served there for nearly five years and then in 1927, while home on leave,
decided not to return. He later wrote that he had come to understand and reject the
imperialism he was serving. He was stuck between the hatred of the empire and rage
against the native people who opposed it, which made his job more difficult. Blair, on
his first six months of release, traveled to eastern England to research the poor. In Spring
of 1928, he took a room in a working-class district of Paris. He wrote two novels, which
have been lost, as well as publishing a number of articles in French and English. He
became ill with pneumonia, worked ten weeks as a dishwasher and kitchen porter, and
returned to England at the end of 1929.
school classes regularly. At the age of fifteen, he got a job at a local
studying science and then British literature. After the Second World War , he worked as a
She went to Michael's Primary School before she went to Wyedean School and College. She later went to the University of Exeter for Ba in french and Classics. After she
Orwell later moved on to Spain where he joined the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), or the Workers’ Party for Marxist Unity, and began his belief in socialism. When he arrived in Barcelona, he noticed an almost complete elimination of the social class structure: “Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Everyone called everyone else Comrade and Thou…. In outward appearance, the wealthy had practically ceased to exist…. In some ways I did not...
1. Orwell’s thesis is that cause and effect are closely related, which is implied and stated.
Next, let’s talk about his education and where he went to get his education. Gandhi went to an all boy school Rajkot when he was seven (“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi” pg3 ).once he finished elementary school he then went to high school because they didn’t have a middle school, and that’s when he started to think about his career (“Mohandas Gandhi”).Later when Gandhi finished high school he went to the university college in London to study law (“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”pg3). Even though he went to London he had good and bad experiences with it.
Eric Blair, better known for his pen name George Orwell was born in 1903 in the town of Motihari, India. Like other boys during this time, his parents sent him to boarding school so he could get an education. Orwell ended up boarding at St. Cyprian’s for five years while only
George Orwell, noted writer and journalist, arrived in Barcelona, Spain in late 1936 to cover the fight against fascism. Being an avid fan of socialism, he was amazed to see the small glimpse of socialism in action. He was intrigued to say the least, of the classless society he observed there. Barcelona, Spain at this time was held under Anarchist control, and as such most of the old class society rituals were abandoned: tipping, titles, and the old divisions between rich and poor were practically gone. Everyone was equal in this new society, and most of the rich aristocrats had either fled or went into hiding. This being the truest form of socialism and brotherhood Orwell had ever before witnessed he put down his pen and took up arms. Homage to Catalonia, which Orwell later wrote after fleeing to France in 1937, gives his account as a militiaman in the P.O.U.M (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista) Militia, which roughly translates to the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification. At the time this was one of the many anti-fascist factions in Spain, later he remarks joining P.O.U.M with ignorant bliss of what the difference was between any of them.
expectations of him at Exeter, his home in Harlem, and the local junior high school
the 1930s. He never joined the Communist party, but he wrote many radical poems and essays in
Even though William's family moved around a bit he still received a pretty good education. His family moved from Sandymount, Dublin, to London in eighteen sixty-seven, due to his father's job. While there William entered the Godophin school, which he attended for four years. Then for financial reasons the Yeats family moved back to Dublin in late eighteen eighty. In October of eighteen eighty-one he started high school at Erasmus Smith High School, which he attended until eighteen eighty-three.
with his parents “He was only nine, not old enough to be left alone in
Gandhi then took the British apart with Satyagraha (non-violent non-cooperation) and was imprisoned for two years in1922. When he got out he took a brake from his politicalnes and traveled around India working various jobs among the peasants. Then in 1930 he was at it again writing the declaration of independence for India and making salt in protest of the British monopoly on salt. This act of treason inspired many more across the country rendering the British helpless once again forcing tem to invite Gandhi to London for meeting on how India’s independence would work with a Muslim minority and a Hindu majority.