1. Orwell Notes
English 10 Practical

2. Born ________ in _______________________ in _________
Eric Blair
Bengal, E. India
Born ________ in _______________________ in _________
At 8 years old, he won a ___________________ to
__________, which was a prestigious private school.
Eric was sickly and a ______________.
While at his first school, he was _________ by the Head
Master and _________and ridiculed by the older boys.
While at the Private school and at an early age, Eric developed
a dislike of ___________ and blind obedience. He
empathized with ______classes. He also developed contempt
for systems of ________ that stifled ______________,
freedom, ________ peoples, and distorted the _____.
1903
scholarship
St. Cyprian’s
bed wetter.
beaten
hazed
authority
lower
authority
individuality
oppressed
truth

3. At age ____14_, Eric won a __Scholarship__ to Eton.
At Eton, he studied __Latin___, Greek, _French____, and ___divinity____. He rebelled against the snobby____ upper___- class________.
Because of his voracious reading habits, he grew __skeptical_ of the English _class_____ ____system__.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Eric joined the _civil______ _service______ and worked as an officer in the ___Indian____ __Imperial____ _____Police__ in Burma. He got a first hand look at British Imperialism and was disillusioned_______.
From ___1927___ to _1933____ he lived in _poverty____. Eric’s first book was published under a pseudonym: __Orwell___. The title of the book was Down and Out in __Paris__ and __London_____.

4. The reason remains obscure why Eric changed his name to Orwell
The reason remains obscure why Eric changed his name to Orwell. The new name came from a small river that ran near a house where he used to live.
In 1936 he __married_ and had begun thinking of and working with ___Democratic Socialism as a possible antidote for England’s social _ills__.
In 1939 and WWII Orwell served as a _sargent__ in the Home Guard. He wrote essays on the dangers of totalitarianism (dictatorship)_____ practiced by Hitler and ____Stalin___.
From November 1943 to February 1944, ___Animal Farm was written.
Communism: A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

5. `
In 1946, Orwell’s _wife_ died and he finds out he has active ___tuberculosis (TB)_.
In 1947, he wrote _ A year later he remarried_ and finished the novel, only to die a few months later, in January of 1950, of a tubercular hemorrhage.
As Western Allies grew disenchanted with _Stalin , Animal Farm was published and became an _international best seller.