The Author: George Orwell Pictures Contents Biography George Orwell (1903-1950) Orwell was born Eric Hugh Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, an area in eastern India only about three hundred miles from Burma, where Orwell was to serve twenty years later as a British civil servant. Orwell had a sister about five years older than he, and another five years younger, but he was never very close to them. In ... leave for a sanitarium in Switzerland, he had a tubercular hemmorhage and died. 1984 By George Orwell 1984 by George Orwel is a dramatic nov... 1984 By George Orwell 1984 by George Orwel is...

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... or portray their ideas through their works. Three of the very most influential writers of all time would have to be J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, and George Orwell. First off, throughout numerous decades, George Orwell has been known for his first class ideas. Since the mid 1940's, George Orwell has been considered one of the world's premier essayists because of his revolutionary ideas about future society (Blair 2594 ... people, Poe's work seems to be demented, but to others it is a lovely work of art (Britannica 478). During the mid-1800's, Poe worked as a writer, creating stunnin...

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... choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize. George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal ... , overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude o...

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... present. Through this understanding, the novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, is able to preserve his sanity, for the time being, and establish his individuality (Zehr 419). George Orwell once wrote about his novel, "I don't believe this type of society I describe will arrive, but I believe something resembling it could arrive." This assessment has proven to be fairly accurate. Characters in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ... live in a totalitarian society, yet they can be seen as representative of groups in modern-day society. A major theme in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is capitulat...

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... tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it is simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. The hero (there are very few female heroines in traditional dystopian fiction) often faces utter ... embraced the new world. There is no desire to remember the lost world of humanity's past, a fact that is enforced by the distinct lack of biography the characters possess. ...

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... occur. In contemporary times, much criticism has been placed upon Rudyard Kipling for his support of British Imperialism; George Orwell went so far as to call him the "prophet of British Imperialism during its expansionist phase." To be sure, a considerable portion of Kipling's works were written in celebration and support of Imperial expansion, but it is short-sighted to simply label him as an Imperial propagandist ... ;lest we forget! The call to extend the Law' continues in Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden."" However, such an extension calls for a definition of a "white man."" B...

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