 He was born in India in 1903  His mother took him to England when he was child  He was educated at a preparatory school and then at Eton  At Eton he began to develop an independent-minded personality, indifference to accepted values and professed atheism and socialism because he could not stand traditions and rules of society  He passed the India Office examinations for the Indian Imperial Police and he served in Burma from 1922 to 1927  In 1927 he went on leave and he not returned  He wished to break away from British imperialism in India and every form of man’s dominion over man

 Back in London he started a social experiment: be poor and he learned how institutions for the poor (hospitals, prisons, hostels)  After a period in Paris he published his works with the pseudonym of George Orwell because “George” suggested common sense and “Orwell” was the name of a river he was fond of  In “Down and Out in Paris and London” describe his experience among the poor  In “Burmese Days” describe his experience in the colonial service  In 1936 he married Eileen O’Shaughnessy  Was commissioned to investigate conditions among the miners, factory workers and unemployed in the industrial North - - > his report was “The Road to Wigan Pier”  He went to Catalonia with his wife to report Spanish Civil War: with Homage to Catalonia he recalled the experience of his conversion to socialism and the ideal of brotherhood and equality  He back in England and adopted Richard: an infant child  He suffered bronchitis and pneumonia

 When the Second World War broke out, he moved to London and worked on propaganda for the BBC from 1941 to 1943  In 1943 he began to write “Animal Farm” which was published in 1945 and this gave him popularity in Europe  In 1949 the published “Nineteen Eighty-Four” his most original book which became a best-seller  He died of tuberculosis in 1950

 Orwell understand English character of its tolerance, its dislike of abstract theories, common sense and fair play  He had ability to see his country from the outside, so he was receptive to new ideas and impressions  His life and work were marked by the unresolved conflict between his middle-class background and education and his emotional identification with the working class  In “Inside the Whale” he defined the role of the writer considering the literature of the 1920s and 1930s.  His desire to inform, to reveal facts and draw conclusion from them  Most of his successful novels express political themes  He believed that the writer should be independent

 Orwell was a political journalist, critic and book-reviewer in the tradition of Swift and Defoe  He used realistic and factual language  He represented a vision of human fraternity and misery caused by poverty and deprivation  He supported ideals of tolerance, justice and equality between people  He critiqued totalitarianism, violation of liberty  HELPED HIS READERS TO RECOGNISE TYRANNY IN ALL ITS FROMS