An Autobiography Through Fiction-Based Prose
...George Orwell, became famous only a few short years before his tragic death. In fact, many of the world's most celebrated writers experienced the same fate. "Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihar in Bengal, India, on 25 June 1903" (Oldsey 2). After a few beginning essays and other writings, Blair adopted the pen-name George Orwell in the early 1930s. Orwell attended prestigious schools like St. Cyprian's and later Eton, which contributed to Orwell's exemplary writing and work (Oldsey 2). Growing up in the middle class in England, Orwell was forced to work exceedingly hard to stay in school and ascend to higher knowledge. Some years after Eton, Orwell "precipitously dropped out of the middle class and the pukka sahib category into the lower depths of London and Paris, and then the coal-mining town of Wigan
" (Oldsey 5). These endeavors into the lower class would later affect the themes in his novels of the middle class responsibility for change. "Orwell was born into the impoverished upper-middle class, a particularly unhappy section of English society where a small income is strained to the utmost in the desperate struggle to keep up appearances, and where, for the very fact that social position as almost all these people possess, snobbery is more highly developed and class distinction more closely observed than anywhere else in the complicated hierarchy of English society" (Woodcock 237). Throughout Orwell's life, he traveled to many parts of the world and the settings of his novels reflect those travels. Orwell is widely known as a man with heavy political ideals and beliefs. Many of his novels, especially ones written later in his life, use characters to represent different political leaders and different forms of government including Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, and Totalitarianism. Consequently, the life of George Orwell is seen through his writings because...
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