george orwell ppt
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George Orwell: A Biography
Gabrijela Čorković, prof.
Privatna jezično-informatička gimnazija “Svijet”
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George Orwell
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
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Real Name - Eric Arthur Blair
• Lived 1903-1950• Born in India• Moved to England as a small child• His pen name: George “sounds solidly English”
and Orwell is the name of “a river in Suffolk, England”
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Education & after school
• Attended expensive preparatory schools in England
• Grew up “lower-upper-middle class”
• Served in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police (he quit because he hated the racism)
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Career Path
• Chose to live in poverty, worked as a dishwasher • Wrote Down and Out in Paris and London
harsh working conditions of the poor
• Wrote The Road to Wigan Pier terrible conditions of the miners
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Effects of These Jobs
• Became a socialist– Socialism
• All goods in a country are shared with others• No one has more than others• For example, “You have two cows. The
government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.”
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Spanish Civil War
• Fought in Spanish Civil War against communists Shot in the throat in battle
• Wrote about this war: Homage to Catalonia
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Personal Life
• Married in 1936• Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1938• Adopted son in 1944• Wife died in 1946• Remarried in 1950 (three months before his own
death)
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Most Famous Works
Animal Farm (1945)
• Wrote it “to expose Stalin’s perversion of socialism”
• Immediate commercial success
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Most Famous Works
1984 (1949)
• His final novel• Grim vision of future society• “Big Brother” is
watching/controlling all• Considered a masterpiece
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Quotations
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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Thank you
for your attention!