Eric Blair was born in India, which happens to be the place that changed his career in the future. He was a very pessimistic child; at the age of 18 months he was recorded for the first time and his only word was "beastly". As a little kid he remembered thinking about writing as a career although none of it was serious (I omitted the last bit of the sentence, it’s not necessary). But he did in fact keep a sort of deeply descriptive journal in his mind of everything he ever did. He went to Eton College in England where he learned of many writing techniques; of which he mostly disliked.

The second event that formed his writing was his involvement in the Spanish-Civil War. He volunteered with the Loyalists until he was injured and fled, but after he left he wrote a remarkable book Homage to Catalonia. In this book he captured the chaos of people and how they reacted to war and its pressures. A passage says, "I have often seen an illiterate militiaman buy one of these [revolutionary] ballads, laboriously spell out the words, and then, when he had got the hang of it, begin singing it to an appropriate tune." To think that someone would just go off singing and praising with out really knowing why is frightening. Also in this book he gave an entire chapter to newspaper articles that defended the Trotskyists. This would be old news to any reader nowadays and Blair was very criticized for adding the chapter (this sentence needs a fuller explanation). But very few people in London knew what was really going on with these people in Spain. The fact that no one knew the!

Eric Blair fully understood the principles of fear and I think he integrated them in to the entirety of 1984. Not only does he use the dread of Big Brother and the Thought Police against all the people in the book, but it is also used against the readers. This sense of hopelessness is the book purpose. It is clearly defined by the reader putting all their hope into the proles and the Brotherhood, though both of these hopes are crushed with a simple quote, "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Ooh…that’s a good use of a quote!) He used this to warn people of any totalitarian government, not just communism as some may say.

These two factors alone are enough to make Blair an authority to write the book 1984. First of all, his time with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma made him realize what propaganda can do to people. In the second paragraph of the book, his attitude towards propaganda is shown in the poster of Big Brother that says, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." He even took these psychological controllers to the next level with the telescreens. With his unique descriptive manner he defined this very fictional device (for his time) with such detail that people ignorant of technology could understand it and its continual bombardment of the party's visions. Also, from his time after Bu

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