George Orwell Timeline

A Timeline Depicting George Orwell's (Eric Arthur Blair's) Life

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George Orwell Timeline

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair.

He was born on June 25th, 1903, in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India.

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Then, roughly 10 years later...
George Orwell...

... was accepted into St. Cyprian's School, in Eastbourne, Sussex at age 11, for his mother wished for him to have a good education.


Then, after one semester at Wellington College, he decided to transfer to Eton College, which he attended from 1917-1921.
Wellington
Eton

After graduating from Eton, Eric Arthur Blair wanted to further his education by going to Oxbridge, but insufficient funds decapitated his chances. Therefore, he decided to become one of the Imperial Police Force, stationed in Burma.


In 1927, Eric Arthur Blair contracted Dengue Fever, which allowed him to leave his current post, in Katha, roughly 6 months early.


While recovering from The Dengue Fever in England, Blair reevaluated his life and decided that he wanted to become a writer. After a period of being a struggling new author, he hit it big when he wrote "The Road to Wigan Pier" in 1936, which wasn't released to the public until 1937.


Before the book he had written was even released, Eric found something, or someone rather, to preoccupy his time. Soon afterward he married his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy.


Soon after marrying his wife, Eileen, they went to Spain as a fighters for the Republican Side in the Spanish Civil War. During the course of action, he was shot in the neck and nearly killed.
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In 1944, after returning from Spain, Orwell finished the anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm that was published in Britain on August 17th, 1945, and in the U.S. on August 26th, 1946.


During the Second World War, Orwell wrote a weekly radio political commentary, designed to counter German and Japanese propaganda in India. At the time, radio broadcasts were still a major staple in the communities mass-media needs..


Then, shortly before the end of World War II, Eric Arthur Blair's wife died during an operation of some sort. The details are unclear, but what is known is that she died on March 29th, 1945.


Following that, in the year 1949, Orwell wrote what was quite possibly his most famous book. "1984" was a book that showed what it was like to live in a "utopia" that controls everything, including your own thoughts.


Within a matter of weeks, Orwell fell in love, once again. His second wife was Sonia Brownell, whom many of his friends considered to be a gold-digger.


On January 21st, 1950, Eric Arthur Blair (or George Orwell, as he was better known) died at age 46, from tuberculosis in London. The gravestone made no mention of popular pen name, it simply stated: "Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born June 25, 1903, died January 21, 1950."

To this day, George Orwell continues to help guide new and upcoming writers. He wrote a book, entitled Politics and the English Language, which gave six rules for writers to follow, that are still in use today.

The Six Rules
1) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2) Never us a long word where a short one will do.

3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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[23r0c001]

Thanks, guys, glad you liked it, and he really was a genius in my eyes.

[6evorev6]

i hate people putting shitty music in their stupid educational videos, CRIPES my ears bleed!

[AlexDeLargeisHere]

Exactally.

George Orwell hated noise.

He should've put classical music in the background

[bullettoothburrows]

Terrible music.

[darkfiete]

@sportrox9 he fought for a militia group called POUM (socialists) alongsite the CNT/FAI (Antifa and Anarcho Syndicalist movement) but eventually the stalinists seized control of the republics government and so CNT/FAI and POUM were destroyed in purification of the Republican Forces (which weakened them so much that they lost the war against the rebels)

[AlexDeLargeisHere]

I researched George Orwell for school.

George Orwell had communist ideals in his youth but that was before the Stallinist followers betrayed him and put his friends in jail.

Orwell & his wife barely escaped, from then on Orwell despised communisim, but was an advocate of Monarchy.

[TheMonitor88]

he wrote a book about it, in spanish is called "homenaje a Cataluña" in english I guest is "Catalonias tribute" or something like that, sorry about my bad english, im spanish

[harlequin96145]

The Complete Patriot's Guide to Oligarchical Collectivism: its Theory and Practice states there are four types of people in the world according to mentality; idiots, zealots, elitists and patriots.

[djboony]

is there any need for the stupid heavy metal

[RankAndFileGuy]

LOL Yah, he would approve, it's funny. I adore this ugy.