Orwell’s life:
- George Orwell’s real name is Eric Arthur Blair
- Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903
- His great grand-father well wealthy
- Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and south oxford shire standard
- He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school’s external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges
Animal farm:
- Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945.
- According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917
- The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell’s lifetime omitted it
- Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire.
- Orwell wrote the book from November 1943–February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain among the people and intelligentsia, a fact that Orwell hated.It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers, including one of Orwell’s own, Victor Gollancz. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.
Orwell’s other books:
- 1984
- Burmese days
- Homage to Catalonia
- Coming up for hair
- Down and out in Paris and London
Montel,
I’m very pleased to see you getting stuck in and completing your homework this year. Mr North mentioned that you’d not had anything to show today, but I’m confident that he’ll be happy with what you’ve produced this evening.
You might want to look at doing some error correction. I’m fairly sure Mr Orwell didn’t write a book called “Coming up for Hair” I think the word you were looking for may have been “Air”,
Also, I’m fairly sure you don’t usually use words like “Intelligentsia”, so there might have been a bit much of the old “C-P” going on in this homework – maybe?
Righto!
Mr Waugh
Montel,
I’m glad that your homework is finally here. Perhaps it got lost in the web of the internet?
Target: How can you make this research more your own? Focus on one piece of information that is relevant to ‘Animal Farm’ and develop your knowledge in this area. For instance, Focus on the Russian Revolution of 1917 – what can you find out and how can you link it to the text?