George Orwell's Grave

TOPIC: GEORGE ORWELL

TEACHER: MISS CATALINA GARCÍA

SUBJECT: SCIENCE

GRADE: 4TH

GROUP: # “1”

NAME OF THE MEMBERS:

• GABRIELA DESIRÉ ORELLANA DÍAZ

• CINDY HASSEL PERDOMO MARTÍNEZ

• WALMAN EDUARDO MENDOZA MEMBREÑO

• WILMER ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ BORJAS

• KALEB ANTONIO CÁCERES CARDONA

PLACE AND DATE: SAN PEDRO SULA 8/29/2013

INTRODUCTION

George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (Motihari, British Raj, June 25, 1903, London, UK, January 21, 1950) was a British writer and journalist whose work bears the mark of personal experiences by the author of three stages of his life: his stand against British imperialism that led to the undertaking as a representative of colonial enforcement in Burma during his youth for social justice, having been observed and the conditions life of social classes of workers in London and Paris against the Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism after his participation in the Spanish Civil War.

Orwell is one of the essayists in English twentieth century's greatest and best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism: Animal Farm and 1984 (which he wrote and published in his last years of life).

Witness of his time, Orwell is, in the thirties and forties, writer, literary critic and novelist. From his varied production, the two works that had a more lasting success were two texts published after the Second World War and Animal Farm, especially 1984 novel that created the concept of 'Big Brother' has since passed into the common language of the critique of the modern techniques of surveillance.

The adjective "Orwellian" is often used in reference to totalitarian dystopian universe imagined by British writer.

George Orwell: "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"

CONTENT

George Orwell

Early years

Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India. His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of plantations in Jamaica.His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman. Although the gentility passed down the generations, the prosperity did not; Eric Blair described his family as "lower-upper-middle class". His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.Eric had two sisters: Marjorie, five years older, and Avril, five years younger. When Eric was one year old, his mother took him and his older sister to England.

In January, Blair took up the place at Wellington, where he spent the Spring term. In May 1917 a place became available as a King's Scholar at Eton. He studied at Eton until December 1921, when he left at age 18½. Wellington was "beastly", Orwell told his childhood friend Jacintha Buddicom, but he said he was "interested and happy" at Eton. His principal tutor was A. S. F. Gow, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who also gave him advice later in his career. Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley. Stephen Runciman, who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair. Cyril Connolly followed Blair to Eton, but because they were in separate years, they did not associate with each other.

Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies,but during his time at Eton he worked with Roger Mynors to produce a College magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications—College Days and Bubble and Squeak—and participated in the Eton Wall Game. His parents could not afford to send him to university without another scholarship, and they concluded from his poor results that he would not be able to win one. Runciman noted that he had a romantic idea about the East and the family decided that Blair should join the Imperial Police, the precursor of the Indian Police Service. For this he had to pass an entrance examination. His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History. Blair passed the exam, coming seventh out of the 26 candidates who exceeded the pass mark.

Personal life

Childhood

Jacintha Buddicom's account Eric & Us provides an insight into Blair's childhood. She quoted his sister Avril that "he was essentially an aloof, undemonstrative person" and said herself of his friendship with the Buddicoms "I do not think he needed any other friends beyond the schoolfriend he occasionally and appreciatively referred to as 'CC'". She could not recall his having schoolfriends to stay and exchange visits as her brother Prosper often did in holidays.Cyril Connolly provides an account of Blair as a child in Enemies of Promise. Years later, Blair mordantly recalled his prep school in the essay "Such, Such Were the Joys", claiming among other things that he "was made to study like a dog" to earn a scholarship, which he alleged was solely to enhance the school's prestige with parents. Jacintha Buddicom repudiated Orwell's schoolboy misery described in the essay, stating that "he was a specially happy child". She noted that he did not like his name, because it reminded him of a book he greatly disliked - Eric, or, Little by Little, a Victorian boys' school story.

Connolly remarked of him as a schoolboy, "The remarkable thing about Orwell was that alone among the boys he was an intellectual and not a parrot for he thought for himself".At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "...he was extremely argumentative—about anything—and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys.... We enjoyed arguing with him. He would generally win the arguments—or think he had anyhow." Roger Mynors concurs: "Endless arguments about all sorts of things, in which he was one of the great leaders. He was one of those boys who thought for himself...."

Blair liked to carry out practical jokes. Buddicom recalls him swinging from the luggage rack in a railway carriage like an orangutan to frighten a woman passenger out of the compartment.

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