Political and social events during the early twentieth century changed Great Britain’s position as a world power and dramatically changed its society. Internally, Britain experienced social reforms that had far-reaching consequences. The growing power, influence of wide spread interest in socialist ideology, and rise of literacy from such authors as Virginia Woolf, Derek Walcott, and Maurice Kenney, all had a major effect on Great Britain and the world. Among these authors was George Orwell, an acclaimed writer whose life, style and works, and reputation and influence define his lasting success.
Orwell was born in Motihari, India on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Walmesley, was a civil servant and his mother, Ida Mabel, was a homemaker. Throughout his life he had numerous jobs including: serving with the Indian imperial police at a police training school, a superintendent of police, dishwasher, teacher, clerk, and a sergeant in World War II. He got the influence for his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris, when he moved to England and France in 1930. He bought some old clothes and set off to discover the roots of poverty among the city’s vast number of unemployed, and soon gat

moments saying, “This was the great lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was not possible to be good.”

as repressive, strict, and dreadful. These times haunted his imagination throughout his life and lead to the creation of Such Such Were Joys. He once commented on these

Animal Farm is, in effect, a mixture of fantasy and harshness, of mysterious dangers happily overcome by some characters and terrible punishments falling on the heads of others. The subject animals exist in a comic world, their goodness and simplicity magically protected from the witch’s brew of politics and revolution. But their leaders are captives in a world of fearful transformations—where the Circe of awareness turns pigs into men.

Orwell should be fortunate of his past in some ways because, with out the memories, he may not have become an author. His troubled times in his early school years, and the other difficulties he had to endure, all helped his career rise. His books will be remembered for years to come, and he will continue to be recognized for all of his works, from political animal fables, to true life hardships. Smyer may have described him best when saying, “Orwell belongs to that small group of twentieth century writers whose fictional works have influenced the thinking of readers who are only slightly interested in imaginative literature.” This acclaimed author’s life, style and works, and reputation and influence all played the biggest role in the task of him become an author, and define his lasting success.

of all totalitarian systems (Eric [Arthur] Blair). Critics have recognized many