George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

Born:- 25 June, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, British Indid
Died:- 21st January, 1950 (at the age of 46) in University College hospital, London, England

Pen name:- George Orwell

The greatest novelist Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25th June 1983 in Motihari, Bengal, British India and died on 21st January 1950 in University College hospital, London, England.

He was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. He also known by his pen name George Orwell. He was a men of strong opinions who addressed some of the major political movements of his time, including imperialism fascism and communism.

As a son of British civil servant, Orwell spent his first days in India, where his father was stationed. His mother brought him and his older sister Marjorie, to England about the year after his birth and settled in Henley-on-Thames. his father's day in behind in India and rarely visited he found his father to be dull and conservative.

Literary works:-

George Orwell was an English intellectual, who use literature for the only reason it intimately really exist to try to change the world for the better. He was, in the deeper sense, a political writer. In 1946, a year after the publication of his momentously popular fable, "animal Farm", he was written an English essay titled, "why I write", which laid out his approach with a characteristic clarity.

George Orwell always hated the social group of which he was, despite everything, an exemplary member; intellectuals. From an early age he had wanted to be a writer. But George Orwell excelled at never quite belonging.

Orwell took up writing at an early age reportedly composing his first poem around age four. he later wrote, "I had the lonely child habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the following of being isolated and undervalued".

One of his first literary success came at the age of 11 when he had a poem published in the local newspaper. Orwell was sent to boarding school in 1911, he went to St. Cyprian's in the coastal town to Eastbourne, where he got his first taste of England's class system.

George Orwell's most famous Books:-

Orwell is best known for two novels. Both books, published toward the end of Orwell's life have been turned into films and enjoyed tremendous popularity over the years.

1. Animal Farm (1945):-

Animal farm was an anti-Soviet satire in a pastoral setting featuring to pigs as its main protagonist. 30 pics versus to represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. The novel brought Orwell great acclaim and financial rewards.

2. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949):-

Orwell's masterwork, Nineteen Eighty-Four is also called an anti- Utopian novel. It was published in the late stages of his battle with tuberculosis and soon before his death.

∆Essay by George Orwell

1. Politics and the English language:-

It was published in April 1946 in British literary magazine Horizon. This essay is considered one of Orwell's most important work on style.

2. Shooting an elephant:-

This essay, published in the literary magazine new writing in 1936, discusses Orwell's time as a police officer in Burma (now known as Myanmar), which was still a British colony at the time, Orwell hated his job and thoughts imperialism was an evil thing. As a representative of imperialism he was disliked by the locals. One day although he didn't think it necessary, he killed a working elephant in front of a crowd of local Church " To avoid looking the fool".

Novels:-

Animal Farm (1945)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Burmese Days (1934)
A clergyman's daughter (1935)
Coming up for air (1939)
Keep the Aspidistra flying (1936)

Essays:-

The art of Donald McGill
As I please
Betrayal of the left
England your England
A Hanging
A nice cup of tea
Shooting an Elephant
Why I write

Conclusion:-

Thus, George Orwell was an excellent novelist, essayist and also satirist of 18th century. His dedication in literature is remarkable which shows his intellectual power and thoughts.