orwell's works

orwell's works

Orwell: Experience is hunger

George Orwell is mostly known for having written two of the most important and thought provoking novels of the Twentieth Century: “1984” and “Animal Farm” in which he explores the evils of totalitarianism. It was the powerful experiences of his youth and the lessons he took from them that gave him the understanding of human nature and the evil of power abused that made possible those two great novels.
Eric Arthur Blair and his writing are a testament to the curiosity and adventurism of people in the 1900’s. Eric Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, accumulated a vast wealth of knowledge, personal experience, and fame through writing about his travels and experiences.
Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, a relatively small town in British Colonial India. His parents weren’t the wealthiest in the English class system. His father, was a fairly low-level British colonial government official working in the opium department. His father’s government job gave Orwell ties to the colonial administration that ultimately led Orwell his first job.
As we see through Orwell’s writings, he had an undying hunger for adventure. Orwell was twenty years old when he decided to go to British controlled Burma as an Imperial Police officer. In a sense, Burma was in his blood, having been the birthplace of his mother. Orwell’s experience in Burma resulted in his writing two of his most important works, “Burmese Days” and “Shooting an Elephant”. “Burmese Days” was a brutal and depressing depiction of the empty lives of British Colonists living in Burma prior to World War Two. The book was based loosely on his experience as an English Imperial officer and became extremely controversial because of its unvarnished and raw account of colonial life in Burma at the time. Ultimately “Burmese Days” was banned in both Burma and India. Its editors later changed several names and places Orwell identified in the...