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Becoming Orwell

Published : Thursday, 28 June, 2018 at 12:00 AM  Count : 752
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George Orwell is an English author, best known for his work Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, he did not write these books until the last decade of his life. So, who was he before he was Orwell?
Well, technically he was Eric Arthur Blair. George Orwell was just his pen name! Born on June 25, 1903, to a military family stationed in Motihari, India. A year after his birth, his mother brought him along with his sister Majorie, to England. He gradually started growing up in the UK.
As a kid, Orwell was a loner, spending his time in writing poems, making up stories and holding up conversations with imaginary friends. Things at school did not get much better for him. At the age of eight, he was sent to St.
Cyprian's, a boarding school located in the coastal town of Eastbourne. Orwell was beaten and publically shamed for wetting the bed. While still in school, he noticed a difference between the treatment received by the rich and poor kids. Being unable to do anything about it, he started to befriend his books over people. 
This genius he managed a scholarship and went to Eden College for his undergrad. However, later he decided that he wanted to experience the world as his parents could not fund his education any longer. Orwell started working under the Indian Imperial and Police in 1922, was sent to Burma, where he first realized how awful imperialism was. The following five "wasted years" inspired Orwell to write his classic essays Shooting an Elephant and A Hanging, as well as the second novel Burmese Days which he wrote ten years later.
After five years there, he went back to the UK to pursue a career as a writer. But he could only find work in a variety of odd jobs, as a tutor, as a used bookshop clerk, and even as a dishwasher, living in poverty. These experiences opened Orwell's eyes to the lives of the lower classes, not only to the injustices they suffer but also the value and beauty in the simplicity of their lives.
These years, ultimately became the source material for his first novel Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933. It was during this time when he took the name George Orwell, fearing that his writing would embarrass his family. In 1936, he married the giddy and ironic Eileen O'Shaughnessy. She was a realist knowing that she would always come second as the first place in her husband�s life belonged to his work.
Orwell then took a job as a new commentary producer at the BBC in 1941 but gave it up in 1943 as he believed he was an artist and wanted to go back to writing. 
Publishing Animal Farm, an anti-Soviet satire in 1945, put Orwell on the map as one of the greats. However, success was clouded by the death of his wife who died six months earlier on the operating table during discectomy, leaving him alone with their young adopted son Richard Horatio Blair.
Orwell was sick himself. He contracted tuberculosis. However, he had this brilliant idea of writing a book which he decided to complete while residing at a remote farmhouse in Scotland. He nearly died there and wrote much of the book while still in bed. Thus, Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on June 8, 1949, and was an instant success.
In the same year, after being rejected by a bunch of ladies, he finally married Sonia Brownell, his friend and colleague. Orwell died on January 21, 1950, and which made her live on Orwell's legacy in later years.



Notable Works:Novels
Burmese Days (1934)
A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
Coming Up for Air (1939)
Animal Farm (1945)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nonfiction
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Essays
A Hanging (1931)
Shooting an Elephant (1933)
Politics and the English Language (1946)







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