George Orwell is a author well known all over the world. He is known for his pessimistic writing and strong beliefs against communism. He has had two major selling novels. These are Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm. In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, he uses the characters and storyline to represent the Soviet Union during Communist rule. The symbolism and allegory in the novel show what life was like for common people in the Russian Revolution. George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903, in
George Orwell is a pen name, a name that he chose to be as an author rather than his actual name, to Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India in 1903. During his young age, his mother brought him to England and was there educated in Henley and Sussed at schools. The Orwell family was not all wealthy and in Orwell’s own personal written essays, it shows that his younger years were not so satisfying. At about five or six, though, he noticed that he had a gift for writing. Orwell went
The Russian Revolution and related major historical events is the context of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, originally published in 1945. An allegorical novella and a work of political satire that is more critical of totalitarianism regimes than it is of ideologies such as communism, it has a plot which is a figurative representation of real life events of the Russian Revolution. As these events unfold, the Tsarist autocracy of the Russian Empire is overthrown and leads to a transfer of power: the
Nineteen Eighty-Four, commonly referred to as 1984, is British author George Orwell’s almost prophetic 1949 novel. Often grouped with books like older sibling Animal Farm and Huxley’s Brave New World, 1984’s bleak projections are the apex of mid-20th century dystopian literature. Orwell’s political inclinations towards anarcho-socialism clashed irreconcilably with the iron-handed approach that the Soviet Union and other governments adopted during the rage of World War II. These conflicts birthed