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Biography of George Orwell: Who was this person?

Who was George Orwell? A: An author of the Animal Farm and 1984? Yes, but he was more a British political novelist and essayist who criticized the political oppression in the mid-twentieth century. He was born in a place called Bengal in India. His families were in the position of “lower-upper middle class”. Orwell moved back to England in 1904 so that the children could be brought up in a Christian environment.

He went to public school for his entire life. In 1917, he went to Eton, which was one of an elite private collage in England. During this period, this college can led directly to a higher educations. Experienced with vanity and social elitism at Eton, it made him feel suspicious of the English class system which was strict. In 1922, he returned to India and joined the Indian Imperial Police. He experiences real poverty in India. Not happy when the Indian Imperial Police were criticized badly he returned to England in 1927. He saw the street full of poor as it relates what happened in India. In 1929, he became a private school teacher. Orwell had time to write and published many stories.

Orwell became a socialist. He spoke openly against the conflicts and problems. Unlike many British socialists, he viewed the Soviet Union socialist society and its policies as negative during 1930s and 1940s. Orwell became an activist against the communist oppression. He published two greatest anti-totalitarian novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Soon after the Animal Farm was published, he became famous. With lots of fans, he moved to an island of Jura, the coast of Scotland. While at Jura, George wrote his last famous novel: 1948. He died in 1950, only a year after completing 1984 from tuberculosis.

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