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Life And Works Of George Orwell

In his short life, George Orwell managed to author several works which
would inspire debate across
the political spectrum for years to come due to his extreme views on
Totalitarianism as exemplified in
his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell is now regarded as one of the
finest essayists in Modern
English literature because of his inspired common sense and a power of
steady thought.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal on January 23, 1903. He
lived with his two sisters,
mother and father who was a minor official in Indian Customs. Orwell’s
childhood has been an
influence on his later life and writing. British Writers by Ian
Scott-Kilvert quotes Orwell as saying:

          Looking back on my own childhood, after the infant years were
over, I do not believe
          that I ever felt love for any mature person, except my Mother,
and even her I did not
          trust, in the sense that shyness made me conceal most of my
real feelings from her… I
          merely disliked my own father, whom I had barely seen before I
was eight and who
          appeared to me simply as a gruff-voiced elderly man forever
saying "Don’t."



Early in his childhood, he was sent to a fashionable preparatory school
on a scholarship. The other
boys were much better off than Orwell was. Looking back on his school
years, British Writers by
Ian Scott-Kilvert again quotes Orwell as saying:

          I had no money, I was weak, I was ugly, I was unpopular, I had
a chronic cough, I
          was cowardly, I smelt… The conviction that it was not possible
for me to be a success
          went deep enough to influence my actions until far into adult
life. Until I was thirty I
          always planned my life on the assumption not only that any
major undertaking was
          bound to fail, but that I could only expect to live a few
years longer.



At the age of 13, Orwell was rewarded with not one, but two separate
scholarships. Orwell decided
upon Eton, which was the more distinguished and prestigious of the two.
Of his time at Eton,
Modern British Essayists by Robert L. Calde quotes Orwell as saying, "I
did no work there and
learned very little and I don’t feel that Eton had much of a formative
influence on my life." However,
a majority of English students does no work at Universities but instead
broaden their outlook on life
and acquire a new sense of self-confidence along with an ability that is
far more valuable than
academic learning.

After Orwell’s time at Eton, the natural thing for him to do would have
been to go on to Cambridge
and continue his career there where he could easily have gained a full
scholarship. Instead, Orwell
was advised by a tutor to break away and begin his own career. Orwell
took this advice and took
an open post in the Indian Imperial Police where he spent the next five
years of his life. It was there
that Orwell began his writing career and wrote about his life
experiences in Burma and India.

Orwell felt very guilty about the actions which he took part in during
his time in India so he sought to
escape the guilt in England. When that did not work he instead traveled
to Paris, supposedly to
write, but an unknown author in a foreign country is not likely to make
much of a living so his motives
most certainly must have been otherwise. It is thought that he went to
Paris to face the
down-and-out lifestyle that he was brought up to fear and to experience
a level of pain and failure to
which very few people were subject. It is also believed that Orwell did
this as an act of public
defiance against those wealthier than himself who had humiliated him
during his school years. Orwell
also referred to the time as:

          A feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself
at last genuinely down and
          out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs, -- and
well...

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