the relationship between the main characters in George Orwell book "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

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In this essay I intent to discover how George Orwell present the relationship between the main characters in one of his greatest book “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.

The real name of the author was Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell was just a nick name for his early writing.

Born in Burma as a member of “lower upper middle class” family he must worked very hard to get to well known schools in England at the time.  Firstly it was preparatory St. Cyprians School which he attend on a scholarship where only half of usual fees where pay by his parents.

Scholarship was also the way to get to Wellington and then to Eton. But this was end of his education. When he finished Eton his academic performance was rather very and some teachers’ complaint about disrespect he show their authority, he didn’t have chance for scholarship anymore and his family could not pay full fee for his university.

He decided to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, where he was brought. Only five years later in 1927 he came back to England as an heating imperialism socialist. At this stage he chooses to become a writer.

Two years after, he tried his luck as a freelance writer in Paris. He came back to England year after, not only without any success, but with experience of a life in poverty.

In 1930 he published his first novel, based on Paris’ experience “Down and Out in Paris”. Four years later appeared “Burmese Days”, based on his experience in Burma.

He decided to go living among the poor again to write about “condition of poor and unemployed”. This effected in “The road to Wigan Pier” where with details Orwell described how does the lowest class live. It was first book was he criticise English Socialism.  

During the Civil War in Spain in 1936, he left England and went there to write about it witnessing it. Impressed by the atmosphere in Barcelona, where socialism revolution seems to happen with class distinction, he was disillusioned just few months later when everything return “to normal”, social class including.

Through the Second World War Orwell was working mainly as a journalist. In this period he finished “Animal Park”. Published in 1944 book was a great success, but also meets lots of critic.  

His wartime work for BBC Eastern Service, where he was engaged in propaganda to gain Indian and East support for United Kingdom war efforts, gave him inspiration for his last book. Propaganda, “newspeak” and “censure” was him well known as at this time BBC was under control of Ministry of Information.

He wrote his last book while being in a very bad health condition and died soon after “Nineteen Eighty Four” was published, in 1950.

According to the author the text was written “directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism and against people who where claiming defend of the revolution” to betray it at the end for their own goodness. Unfortunately, at the time of it first publicity author reach completely opposite effect and the book was praised for “showing tyranny as the inevitable result of any socialism regime” (XVIII) and interpret ate as an attack on the totalitarian nature of socialism.

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The world presented in the book is almost a “mirror reflection” of a life in wartime Europe. “Two years after the war in Europe has ended the not always obtainable meat rations was the equivalent of two small chops a week, the grey bread was rationed, and so where the argus – eyed potatoes. The only one wine obtainable was a red Algerian that (…) tested a little as if it had been drained off a corpse.”

Some other aspects of illustrated Oceanian society were based on the Stalin-era and Soviet Union. The portrayals of Big Brother – the ...

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