George Orwell Essay Research Paper Eric Arthur

George Orwell Essay, Research Paper

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. He used his parents’ home in Suffolk for writing

and earned money from occasional articles and teaching. Blair then completed several

versions of what was to become his first book, called, not by his choice, Down and Out in

Paris and London. The book was a record of his experiences, but “If it’s all the same to

everybody, I would prefer [it] to be published pseudonymously”. Discussing the

publication of his first book with his agent, he decided on three possible pseudonyms:

Keneth Miles, George Orwell and H. Lewis Allways. He favored George Orwell. The

Orwell is a river in Suffolk, south of his parents’ home. “George Orwell” published his

first book in 1933. Down and Out… was followed by the novel Burmese Days, published

first in the United States rather than in England because of his English publishers fear of

it’s giving offense in Burma. After Burmese Days came two more novels: A Clergyman’s

Daughter, published in 1935; and Keep the Aspidistra Flying, published in 1936. In the

Spring of 1936 he moved to Hertfordshire and married Eileen O’Shaughnessy, an Oxford

graduate in English, a teacher, a journalist, and later a London graduate in psychology.

Orwell’s reputation at this time was based mainly on his accounts of poverty and

depression. His next book, The Road to Wigan Pier was written for the Left Book Club

and started his career as a political writer. Much of this book was composed of an essay

on class and socialism, which was Orwell’s first statement of his political position. In

July, he left for Spain to fight (and write) in the Spanish civil war. For the next two or

three years, Orwell became a revolutionary socialist. When he returned from war , he

wrote Homage to Catalonia and in the winter of 1938, wrote Coming Up for Air. In 1941

he wrote London Letter’s and in August joined the BBC as a talks producer in the Indian

Section of the Eastern Service. Later in the year, he began writing Animal Farm. It did

not appear until August 1945, at the end of the war. He and his wife adopted a son in

1944, but in 1945 his wife died during an operation. Animal Farm’s success ended

Orwell’s financial worries that he had suffered from for twenty years. In 1946, he settled

in Jura, Scotland, with his younger sister as housekeeper, though he returned to London

for the winter. During 1947, in the early stages of renewed tuberculosis, he wrote the first

drafts of Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1948, amid several attacks, Orwell wrote the second

draft. In September, 1949, he went into a hospital in London, and in October married

Sonia Brownell. In January 1950, Eric Arthur Blair, AKA “George Orwell”, died.

(Williams 7-15) WORKS In 1933, Orwell wrote Down and Out in Paris and London.

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