GEORGE ORWELL |
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L'autore inglese George Orwell nel suo libro"Nineteen Eigty-Four" attraverso il personaggio principale, presenta il suo modo di vedere le cose, particolarmente la sua avversione per i sistemi totalitari, che annullano l’uomo e lo rendono schiavo del potere.George Orwell was born in India in 1903, where his father was an official in the Indian Civil Service. Orwell moved to England. He was sent to private school. Later he described his unhappiness at school in one of his essays. He described his suffering because he felt an oucast that school among boys from much wealthier families. When he went to Eton he was happier here Orwell was developing an independent-minded personality. He didn’t go to the University and he decided to go to Bruma and served in the administration of the Indian Imperial Police. His colonial experience inspired his first novel “Burmese Days”. He went on leave and decided to return as a policeman in the Empire and had started to develop an anti-imperialistic attitude. He came back in London where he lived in a real poor financial condition. In 1929 he felt ill with pneumonia, the first serious symptom of the tuberculosis. He published his works under the pseudonym of George Orwell. He chose George because it had Englishness about it, suggesting plain speaking and common sense, and Orwell because it was the name of a river he was fond of. He worked as teacher. He married Eileen O’Shaughnessy, who shared his interests in literature and socialism. Orwell was commissioned to investigate conditions among the workers in the industrial North. In 1936 he went to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War. He wrote a book “Homage to Catalonia”, he was to recall this experience as the time of his true conversion to socialism and the ideals of brotherhood and equality. During the Second World War he moved to London and he worked as journalist for the BBC, Observer and Tribune, where he was a literary editor. He wrote Animal farm, a satiric fable on the results of the Russian revolution under Stalin. After he wrote his last book "Nineteen Eighty-Four", it was published a few weeks before his death in January 1950. |