1. George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair Born June 25, 1903
Father was an employee of India’s government- Opium Department
Moved to Oxfordshire, England 1904
Eric Blair -- George Orwell as student, (Orwell Archive)
Knew wanted to be a writer from age 5
Won scholarships to Wellington & Eaton- College Prep Schools
Neglected to win a University Scholarship

2. Employment
1923
Burma Provincial Police Training School, Mandalay (Eric Blair standing third from the left)
5 years
Left – Dreams of becoming a writer and could not support a political system of imperialism

3. Employment 1927- Moved to Paris to write
Ran out of money & became a dishwasher
1929- Became an official Tramp & roamed the English countryside
Teaching at the Hawthorns, (Geoffrey Stevens)
Time to write & publish books

4. Employment Wrote Down and Out in Paris & Burmese Days
1941- Producer & Broadcaster for BBC India

5. Committed Socialist Went to Spain to report on Spanish Civil War
Soon joined the struggle against the Nationalist Army
Member of the Lenin Division in Barcelona
March 1937
On the Aragon front at Huesca: Orwell is the tall figure standing in the centre, Eileen Blair is crouching in front of him

6. POUM Joined the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification
Worked his way up to 2nd Lieutenant
An outlaw
Sniper Bullet to the neck
Returned to England

7. George Orwell Pseudonym
'...I would prefer the book to be published pseudonymously. I have no reputation that is lost by doing this and if the book has any kind of success I can always use this pseudonym again.' In effect, it meant that Eric Blair would somehow have to shed his old identity and take on a new. This is exactly what he tried to do: he tried to change himself from Eric Blair, old Etonian and English colonial policemen, into George Orwell, classless anti-authoritarian.
Orwell= River in Suffolk, England
George= British, Christian Name

8. Utopia
Utopia ideal civilization, which may range from a city to a world, regarded to be attainable in the future by some.
Humans all work to create a better, or perhaps perfect society.
“Utopian" in a negative meaning is used to discredit ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic and impossible to realize.

9. Anti-Utopian Writer
Cautionary tales about what can happen if tyranny and totalarianism is left to rule. Warns against a future lead by selfishness.
Orwell envisions a world corrupted by power and devastated by nuclear war and poverty.
The writer at work. Orwell typing in his flat in Islington, winter (Vernon Richards)
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