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The life and Legacy of George Orwell

George Orwell , a renowned novelist and essayist , is not only regarded for his multitude contributions to literature , he is well recognized as a secular saint ' Fifty-seven years after his death , Orwell is acclaimed not only by thinkers and but also by the political left and right and those in between . He is a great story teller of truth and is revered by his moral courage , intellect and diamond-hard prose

Social historian Noel Annan once described him as the first saint of our age (Frankel

, para . 2 . Orwell , deprived of university training is quirky , fierce , independent and beholden to

Early Life and Works

Born Eric Arthur Blair , this English author lived most of his life in poverty . He joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 before he returned to Europe to pursue his writing career (Widmann para . 1

In 1936 , Orwell (his pen name ) joined the Republican forces in the Spanish civil war . He was wounded in fighting and later on had to flee Spain for his life . Orwell was always critical of communism and considered himself as a socialist

Over the next ten years , he would make his journey towards becoming famous - under a new name and with an altered identity . As Eric Blair he experienced injustice and poverty and as George Orwell he began to look for their causes

His early experiences with his prose . After the publication of two of his greatest novels - Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , he confirmed his disgust over serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written , directly or indirectly , against artistic purpose into one whole

During World War II , Orwell wrote a weekly radio political commentary where he countered German and Japanese propaganda in India (para . 5 His commentary work during the war at BBC gave him a solid taste of bureaucratic hypocrisy . This part of his life , many would later say was his inspiration for his satirical , political novel Nineteen eighty-four , which had the most profound influence on historical revisionism

Until his death in 1950 , Orwell would question almost every official or accepted ' versions of history . In his book Notes on Nationalism he writes if liberty means anything at all , it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

Animal Farm and Nineteen eighty-four

Orwell became a world literary giant after the publication of the book Animal Farm . He began his masterpiece in the final years of World War II . With this (and later with 1984 , he started his thematic series concerning abuse of political power (Pyle , para . 3

In Animal Farm , Orwell exposed the Soviet myth by incorporating it into a story that could be easily understood . It is also the first novel written exclusively for political purpose and by this , Orwell entered into a new realm of creative invention

This slight fable , scarcely longer than a short story led directly back to his first days in Barcelona . It tells...

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