Biography of George Orwell with personal, social and historical context
Introduction
The writer, journalist and essayist Eric Arthur Blair, known for his pseudonym George Orwell, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motifahi (India) in the course of the colonial period of the British. His parent worked there in the British opium department. At an early age he moved with his mother sister to England. His father visited him very rarely and never formed a close relationship.
He was a very creative child who wrote his first poem at four years of age and liked to play invent stories. Throughout his life, Orwell had personal experiences in military contests that marked him as the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Developing
In England he studied at St. Cyprian and later in Eton thanks to a partial scholarship that he got for his merits. He affirmed that his school provided a better treatment to rich children than those who were not. In that situation he took refuge in books, Rudyard Kipling was one of the authors who read at that time. Subsequently, taking into consideration his lack of resources to go to university, he returned to Burma to perform as a policeman in the British Imperial Police, five years later he left that work with an abhorrence to imperialism, a feeling that translizes in the days of Burma.
He suffered needs after moving to Paris in 1928, living as homeless. Given his unfortunate situation, he decided to return to London where he worked as a teacher at school and work in a bookstore. Eric Blair, in 1933, decided to adopt George Orwell’s pseudonym to publish his first work without Blanca in Paris and London that contained his experiences in Paris and London, in order to add freely autobiographical data without affecting his family.
He published the novels days in Burma, keep the Aspidistra and the daughter of the priest in the period between 1934 to 1936. The Wigan dock path is one of its essays in which it examines the perspectives of British socialism and puts under analysis the repercussions of international depression. He was a member of the English Independent Labor Party, for which the writer was designated to cover in an English newspaper the Civil War of Spain.
Orwell felt moved by that revolution and subsequently served as a soldier of the Marxist Ideology Party against Dictator Franco who had support from the Nazis. Returning, injured, he dedicated himself to writing the chronicle tribute to Catalonia in 1938. His experience in the Spanish conflict influenced his perspective, marking Stalinism as a totalitarian dye force despite the fact that their works since 1936 have more similarities with the moderate left of Europeans and are of more social nature. In 1936 he contracted nuptials with Eileen O’Shaughnessy and remained together until her death in 1945. Orwell Crio to his son after his wife’s death.
In 1938 he had tuberculosis, a disease against which I fight for months at the Preston Hall Sanatorium. At that time there was no effective treatment against that disease for which he would fight against that disease until the rest of his days.
During World War II, still injured, he worked on the British radio integrating part of the Home Guard. He worked in the Tribune and The Observer newspapers when the war culminated.
conclusion
Among the usual themes that the inhuman conditions of life of classes are common next to poverty are common in their novels and writings. His ideas are reflected in his works demonstrating his deep negative towards the regimes of Stalin and Hitler, as well as imperialism, thoughts formed based on their own experiences. In several of his works, fascinating utopias are formulated, speculating a future under the domain of political powers.
In 1949, he published the 1984 dystopian fiction novel by creating the popular character of the Big Brother in a totalitarian regime. In October of the same year he proposed marriage to Sonia Brownell. However, Orwell died on January 21, 1950 due to tuberculosis to the young age of 46 years.
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