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He was born in India in 1903. When he was a child he was sent to a preparatory school in England, and later described his unhappiness at school in one of his essays: such, such were the joys. At the end of his schooldays he refused to go to university and decided to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, where he developed his social and political opinions together with a strong anti-imperialistic attitude. Back in London he started a social experiment by taking up a series of jobs because he wanted to know by personal experience the life conditions of the lower classes, so he wrote "Down and out in Paris and London". Orwell was an active socialist and, when he went to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War, he joined the socialist forces. When the Secondo World War broke out he moved to London and returned to journalism and political studies. He wrote a great deal for the nespaper and at the some time he worked on one of his most important piece of fiction, "Animal Farm", a satiric fable on the results of the Russian revolution under Stalin. Orwell's last book was Ninteen Eighty Four - 1984.

Features and Themes

The man and the artist

Orwell is the example of the writer who considers his art as one possible instrument in the liberation of mankind. He was an artist who tried to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into a whole. That is why he maintained that the language should be simple, clear and straightforward so as to become an actual instrument of information and communication.

The writer's role

One of the most important features of Orwell's fiction is the close connection between his political views and his writing. For Orwell the writer was a spokesman for the moral conscience of society and he had to denounce the evils like class exploitation. He saw a close relationship between literature and society. In his novels he criticised "totalitarianism" warning against the violation of liberty and helping his readers to recognise tyranny in all its forms.