Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen-name George Orwell was a journalist and author who wrote detailed criticisms of totalitarian regime and advocated for anarchism.
Life
Family
Orwell's family came from the British aristocracy, often being landlords over slave plantations in the Caribbean. His family moved to India and Burma and worked as police officers.[1]
Childhood
Radicalisation
Political Activities
Personal Life
Death
Orwell was almost killed and heavily injured in a disastrous boating trip off the coast of Scotland, and was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis in late 1947. He spent time in various sanitariums and hospitals while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four and receiving medicine. An artery inside him burst in the early morning, killing him.[2]
Ideas
Language
Doublethink
Unperson
Thought Crime
Big Brother
Thought Police
Quotes
Works
- Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
- Burmese Days (1934)
- A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
- The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
- Homage to Catalonia (1938)
- Coming Up for Air (1939)
- Animal Farm (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)