I do not really think that George
Orwell would suit me for this project. I find the political and social
commentary he puts across in his work interesting but personally I think that
the content of his novels is not something I would like to focus on for such a
long amount of time. I would say I
consider myself a politically active and opinionated person, but to be brutally
honest sometimes I find pointing at the injustices of the world necessary, but
when done constantly a bit soul-destroying.
Another thing I value in his work,
however, is how there can often been made a connection between the events of
his life and the content of his novels:
- His time serving as in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma brought inspiration for his first novel – “Burmese Days” (1934).
- The line of menial jobs he had to undertake living in Paris as his attempts to be a writer not being so successful led him to write “Down and Out in Paris and London” (1936).
- Works like “Animal Farm” (1945) and ‘Nineteen eighty-four” (1949) no doubt were inspired by his political opinions shaped by his time and experience as a soldier fighting in the Spanish civil war and a member of the BBC during WWII.
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