Who is George Orwell?
George Orwell was born named Eric Blair on 25th of June, 1903 in India. He was brought back to England by his parents on the following year when Orwell was a year old. George Orwell studied in various private schools including Eton during his childhood, but he did not attend at University, instead he joined the Indian Imperial Police stationed in Burma. Throughout Orwell's life, he had worked as a police officer and a teacher. Orwell even volunteered to fight for Republicans against the uprising during the Spanish Civil War.
Orwell was often bullied when he was young for not coming from a wealthy family, hence from a small age he was extremely sensitive and hated the social class hierarchy. He was a critic of capitalism and communism, because he believed they were oppressive, hypocritical and biased.
Orwell was often bullied when he was young for not coming from a wealthy family, hence from a small age he was extremely sensitive and hated the social class hierarchy. He was a critic of capitalism and communism, because he believed they were oppressive, hypocritical and biased.
Why did he write the novel Animal Farm?
Being a democratic socialist, Orwell was frustrated and dissatisfied about Joseph Stalin's rule after Lenin’s death in 1924. To criticize Stalin's extreme and inhumane dictatorship, Orwell decided to write a satire by directly planting the whole Russian Revolution into the scenarios of Animal Farm. He associated identical characters and events in the content, for instance Napoleon as Stalin, Snowball as Trotsky, Mr Jones as Czar Nicholas II... As a result, an allegory of the Russian Revolution would take place again in the pages of Animal Farm.