Context

George Orwell’s real name is Eric Blair. Orwell was just a pen name he used and eventually just stuck. He was born in India in 1903 and later moved to England. During his education he considered himself an outsider. He was not poor but still struggled throughout his life. He felt as an outsider because in school he was there because of scholarships while other student’s parents could afford to pay for them. After his education he went out and lives with the lower classes for some time and wrote books about what he saw. In the mid 1930’s he went to Spain and observed the Spanish Civil War. In 1945 he wrote a book called Animal Farm which was his view on totalitarianism and politics. After that book in 1949 he wrote yet another novel 1984. Some saw this book a warning towards political authority in a nation. The book was based on what he observed in the lower classes, and in Spain during the war. He also got the idea for big brother form some of the evil leaders of the world which were in power at the time like Stalin or Hitler.