George Orwell | Biography | Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)-Novels by Jesús Pardales

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Orwell was a British journalist and writer. He wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century: "Animal Farm" and "1984". Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur-Blair; he was born on June 25, 1903 in East India and was the son of a British colonial officer. He was educated in the UK but joined the Indian Empire Police in Myanmar, which was then a British colony. After resigning in 1927, he decided to become a writer.
In 1928, he moved to Paris. He described his experience in his first book, "The Decline and Advance of Paris and London" published in 1933. Shortly before publication, he was called George Orwell. In 1934, his first novel "Days in Myanmar" followed.

In the late 1930s, anarchists began to consider themselves socialists. In 1936, he was instructed to write a report on the poverty of unemployed miners in the north of England, thus writing "The Road to the Car Terminal" (1937). At the end of 1936, Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's patriots. He was forced to flee for fear of being attacked by revolutionary Communists supported by the Soviet Union. This experience made him a lifelong anti-Stalinist. Finally, in 1945 and 1949 Orwell's masterpieces were published respectively, "Animal Farm" and "1984". On January 21st, 1950, he died of tuberculosis.
(Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml)

George Orwell's famous work Animal Farm is a political story based on the story of the Russian Revolution and his betrayal of Joseph Stalin. In the book, a group of domestic animals was uprooted and expelled by the masters of the people who exploited them and founded their egalitarian society. Finally, the leaders of this group of intelligent, lively animals overthrew the revolution, forming a society insidious and tyrannical from their former human masters. ("All animals are the same, but some animals are the same as others.") Orwell had trouble finding a publisher for this small business, but when "Animal Farm" appeared in 1945, he just shot. He became famous and succeeded for the first time. 

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."-George Orwell, Animal Farm

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is George Orwell's second novel. After thinking for many years about the double threat of Nazism and Stalinism, he wrote this passage as a warning. The novel takes place in an imaginary future in which the world is ruled by three totalitarian police states and is in an endless war. The British protagonist Winston-Smith in the book is a small office in one of the states. His desire for truth and decency led him to secretly rebel against the government, and the government constantly rewrote history by systematically distorting the facts in order to achieve its own purpose and continue its rule. Smith had a love affair with a like-minded person, but they were both arrested by the thought police. The imprisonment, torture, and re-education that followed were not only to physically defeat or give him but also to eradicate his independent spiritual existence and spiritual dignity until he could no longer fall in love with the person he hated the most. : The obvious leader of the party — Big Brother. Smith succumbed to the terrible brainwashing technique of prison, which is already tragic enough, but much of the power of this novel comes from extending the preconditions of totalitarianism to logical rigor: love of power and control of others. It is perfectly expressed in the long-term supervision and ubiquitous dishonesty of an unwavering and irresistible police country, and under the rule of this country, all human virtues are slowly being conquered and extinguished. Orwell's warning of the potential danger of totalitarianism impressed his contemporaries and later readers. The title of the book and the many words he composed ("Big Brother is Watching You", "Double Thinking") became the keyword of modern political abuse.

The term "Orwellian" has been cited in diverse media publications both in the past and recent times. And for most people, curiosity has compelled them to question the meaning of the so-called term "Orwellian". In the video below, Noah Tavlin gives a brief insight into the meaning of the term.