GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950 LIFE Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, he was the son of a minor colonial official. He was educated at Eton, in England, where he began to develop an independent-minded personality, indifference to accepted values, and professed atheism and socialism.

GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950 LIFE On leaving school, he started to work for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. However, he hated working in Burma and returned to England on sick-leave. Once back in England, he devoted himself to writing full time, publishing his works with the pseudonym of George Orwell.

He died of tuberculosis in 1950. GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950 LIFE In 1936 he went to Catalonia where he joined a militia to fight against the fascist army in the Spanish Civil War. When WWII broke out, he moved to London where he worked for the BBC, broadcasting cultural and political programmes to India. He died of tuberculosis in 1950.

GEORGE ORWELL Homage to Catalonia Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four WORKS His most famous works include: Homage to Catalonia Animal Farm It deals with his experience as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. It is a satire of Stalin’s totalitarian regime in the USSR in the form of an animal fable. It shows his true conversion to socialism and the ideals of brotherhood and equality. Nineteen Eighty-Four His famous dystopian novel

It is a kind of ANTI-UTOPIA. What is a DYSTOPIA? It is a kind of ANTI-UTOPIA. What is a UTOPIA? A UTOPIA is an ideal society which is better than the present one. A UTOPIA is characterised by peace and brotherhood. A DYSTOPIA is an imaginary society which is worse than the present one. A DYSTOPIA is characterised by misery, oppression and fear.