1.+George+Orwell

=media type="youtube" key="S2_6k9dPvmY" height="385" width="480"= //An interview with Mister Orwell himself! He will explain the point of this wiki.// =George Orwell. Author, enemy of the Totalitarian.= "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell

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George Orwell was an outstanding author and is considered one of the greatest English stylists of all time. Orwell had a tendency for criticizing the human condition, as can be seen in his six works of fiction; //Burmese Days, A Clergymen's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm,// and //Nineteen Eighty-Four.//He did not consider himself a novelist. He is considered more of an essayist with his expansive list of essays. He felt he was not the typical novelist because of his ways of self-distancing himself. He also did not follow the typical well-rounded characters guidelines. Although some of his early works did include well-rounded characters and looked more into human relationships, it was his later works //Animal Farm// and //Nineteen Eighty-Four//, which looked more at society, that were his most successful. Orwell was a political man and brought politics in to much of his work. He had a difficult life, but created a style that is unmatched and //1984// is a proven case of that.======

George Orwell was born Eric Blair in 1903. He was born into a middle class family that at times struggled financially. His mother brought him to London at a young age, where he began his studies. Orwell excelled in school and earned scholarships to sttend prestigious schools. In college, however, Orwell tended to slack off and was disliked by many of his professors. After Orwell graduated from Eton College and was unable to earn a scholarship or afford to attend a university, he joined the Imperial Police in Burma. On the job, a hate of imperialism, grew which later went on to feed his work //Burmese Days//. It also fed the creation of his pen name George Orwell, which he coined from George, the patron saint of England, and Orwell from the beautiful River Orwell in Suffolk. His pen name showed the love for the English and also a love of the land. Orwell lived in poverty for quite some time and then found a job as a schoolteacher, but soon ill health forced him to quit teaching. The Spanish Civil War had just begun, and Orwell volunteered and took his place as an infantryman on the battle field. His time on the battle field led him to write a first person autobiographical novel //Homage to Catalonia//. World War II soon came and influenced Orwell to write //Animal Farm.// he was also influenced by several other writers, such as: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Jack London.
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__**Reasons for Writing**__ When Orwell was writing //1984//, there were a lot of possible inspirations for him. Obviously his goal was to warn readers about the future of totalitarianism. Throughout Orwell's life he has watched totalitarianism at work. He observed Stalin's grip on the Soviet Union, and he watched as their standard of living decreased. He saw many unfair situations in the Soviet Union and he began to protest them and communism as a whole. He hated the idea of one person ruling multitudes of people, therefore he decided to forewarn the world. He wrote the book //1984// to prevent the possible outcome of a totalitarian based world. He saw the future world as dangerous, and wanted to show others that they could be in grave danger if they didn't change their ways and remain vigilant.

__**Style**__ Orwell's style is best suited to be incredibly frightening. Despite his skillful portrayal and incredible imagination in producing //1984//, Orwell executes his writing in an incredibly casual style. When describing the function of telescreens and the involvement of the Thought Police in people's daily lives, it is done so as simply as describing the weather. Orwell's masterful way of describing things in a pedestrian sense stirs a certain sort of bewilderment in a reader. It immediately makes one ask: "Why aren't the characters outraged about this?" "How could they settle for this cruelty?" Orwell makes a reader want to act with his involving style. He makes the reader feel as if they need to physically do something to help the characters. By the end of Orwell's novel, the hero is beaten and inoculated. This bitter ending makes Orwell's style clear, and that is persuasion. Everything about Orwell's grizzly, imaginative writing stirs feelings of action into the reader. By the end, it only leaves the reader begging to do something to make a change.