Exposing the Lies of the Russian Revolution in George Orwell's Animal Farm

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The Russian Revolution was a great example of struggle, hard work, and corruption that happens to every great nation at some time. Many of the Russians of this period were mislead into believing that life was better after than before the revolution. George Orwell wanted to expose the lies of the Russian Revolution Era by publishing his book called Animal Farm.
Orwell’s great journey through the lower, upper and middle class began on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India, and was born into the class of Sahibs, which was a class of Europeans that lived in India (The New Encyclopedia Britannica). “When Orwell was about one, his mother took him and his sister to live in England, and his father stayed in India” (George). A few years later Orwell began to show an interest in writing and began to write poems at the age of four. “In 1911 he went to St. Cyprian's in the coastal town of Eastbourne, where he got his first taste of England's class system”(George). After Orwell finished school at St. Cyprian’s, he got many scholarships to attend Willington and Eton College to continue his studies (George). After he finished school at Eton, he was at a dead end and had to find a job.
Orwell had to make a hard decision about what he has going to do and where he was going to do it. He decided that he would move back to India and join the India Imperial Police in 1922 in Burma for five years (The World Book Encyclopedia). During the five years in Burma he realized that he had a real passion for writing and chose to pursue a career in writing. “He lived in poverty in England and Europe from 1927 to the mid 1930’s” (The World Book Encyclopedia). Soon after in 1937 Orwell decided to join in to help fight in the Spanish Civil War, and was shot in the throat and the arm. After Orwell returned to England, he was plagued with sickness for years, and was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (George). He then began to write many essays, reviews, and books, including Animal Farm. “He died on January 21, 1950, in a London hospital” (George). George Orwell wrote many books, some of which have been made into films and have been very popular over the years.
George Orwell was an honest man that wanted everyone to see the lies before their very eyes.

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