Orwell traveled to Barcelona to join the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and was shot in the throat. In 1938, he wrote an anticommunist barrage called "Homage to Catalonia," which was about his experiences in the war. The novel sales were the most dismal of any of Orwell’s other works. The novel "Coming Up for Air" was full of disgust and despair at the failure of the European intelligentsia to realize the dangers that he saw looming desperately close, which was again a prediction of World War II(13). In 1943, Orwell began "Animal Farm" which was a parable about the "gramophone mind" of Soviet Communism (Sheldon 365). Published at the end of WWII the novel gained immediate and astonishing acclaim. In April 1947, he wrote his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-four, about the scathing denunciation of totalitarianism(Brunsdale, ).

George Orwell lived during the first half of the 20th century where England, Europe, and the rest of the world were faced with much turmoil and turbulence. There were many wrenching upheavals that shaped the modern world. For example, Orwell lived through both world wars and experienced great patriotism as a boy toward WWI and as WWII approached, he warned people about the upcoming war in two novels. Orwell lost all the patriotism he had felt as a boy during World War I, and openly detested World War II and everything the war stood for and represented-mainly the political views represented during the war. Orwell often threw himself into extr

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