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George Orwell


            
             Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motahari, Bengal to Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limouzin. In 1904, Limouzin took her two children to England for the education she felt they deserved. Richard Blair stayed in India to finish out the seven years left until his retirement. Orwell read many books as a child, but one that left a significant impression on him throughout his life was "Gulliver's Travels." In 1911, Orwell entered St. Cyprians school. His parents worked out a deal with the headmaster for him to attend the school at a cheaper tuition, and in return, when Orwell received scholarships to attend larger colleges his achievement could be advertised to attract higher paying students. In 1917, Orwell won a scholarship to Wellington College, after three months, he received a scholarship to Eaton University. He attended Eaton University until 1921 after he did poorly in his classes. It was while attending these shools, that Orwell first began to realize the difference of his social background to that of the wealthy students he attended school with. Orwell left for Burma to join the Imperial Police in 1922. After four and a half years he left Burma and traveled back to England. Refusing support from friends and family, and almost completely penniless, Orwell set out on a 2 ½ year descent into destitution which resulted in a somewhat autobiographical "Down and Out in Paris and London" which was published in 1933 under the pen name George Orwell, which he took as a way of escaping his social class position he was born into.
             In his novel, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," Orwell was able to show his own political position when he concluded socialism alone could successfully oppose fascism, which he considered an extended form of capitalism(Brunsdale, ). Through the main character of the novel, Orwell was able to predict World War II through the "humming of the aeroplanes and the crash of bombs squadron after squadron darkening the sky like gnats"( ).


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