ORWELL LIFE

essayist, novelist, literary critic, advocate and fighter for political change.orwell was born in india in 1903 BUT WAS EDUCATED IN ENGLAND. In 1922, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He had spent the first year of his life in a British colony, and this time, he got a thorough experience of British colonial life and despised what he saw. he could not stand the fact that his job put him directly in the position of privileged oppressor. He resigned from the Indian Imperial Police five years later while on leave in England. then he moved to spain where he found what he had been searching for a true socialist state (Orwell was a revolutionary socialist). after being falsely accused in spain during the civili war,he retourned in england. when world war ii began, he rose to fight for the cause of freedom again, this time for england. he joined the home guard and worked for the bbc to compose and disseminate wartime propaganda. orwell disliked this job immensely, being, as he was, in charge of disseminating propaganda to these british. writing propaganda is said to have made him feel corrupt. in 1944, orwell became a war correspondent for the observer in paris and cologne, germany. despite the loss of his wife in 1945 and his own battle with poor health, orwell continued his writing and completed the revision of 1984 in 1948. ironically, although orwell didn't consider himself a novelist, he wrote two of the most important literary masterpieces of the 20th century: animal farm and 1984. in orwell's writing, he has always sought truth:his fiction has elements of the world around him, of the wars and struggles that he witnessed, of the terrible nature of politics, and the terrible toll that totalitarianism takes on the human spirit. he writes because there is some kind of lie that he has to expose, some fact to which he wants to draw attention. orwell certainly does this in 1984, a novel fraught with political purpose, meaning, and warning. once he wrote: "in our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' all issues are political issues, this statement also illustrates the pessimism for which orwell was known. like some other disillusioned people of his generation, orwell believed that totalitarian governments would inevitably take over the west.