George Orwell

1. George Orwell A look into his life and legacy By: Nicholas Fugaro

2. Early life and parents • Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell grew up in British India in the early 1900s • Two older sisters: Marjorie and Avril • Orwell’s father was a military man • Orwell thought his dad was “boring and conservative” • He also always believed that he was a disappointment to his father • First word was ‘beastly’

3. St Cyprian's School • Boy’s Prep school that Orwell attended in East Sussex around the 1940s • Hated it – wrote an essay to the headmasters saying how much he disliked them and accused them of cruelty • Every morning the students would have to run through an ice cold water • If they didn’t get in quickly, the teacher would hit them with a stick • Orwell suffered from multiple floggings in his time there • Many experts believe that Room 101 is based off of these awful experiences that Orwell went through

4. Living IN London • Orwell lived all over parts of the UK and also France • London was his home for most of his life • Orwell lived in London during The Blitz, the bombing of the UK by Germany, of World War II • The broken down buildings and rumble everywhere helped Orwell paint Oceania in 1984 • Paris is also frequently mentioned in the novel, place Orwell stayed some of his life

5. Places in 1984 in Real Life • Many of the places in London near Orwell were implemented in 1984 • Orwell worked at the BBC in London for about 2 years • Worked in a room numbered “Room 101” • One of his jobs was to broadcast prewritten lines about the war propaganda, favoring UK’s side • Orwell hated the feeling of telling people things he knew were lies • Many believe that the Ministry of Truth and Winston’s job are based off of the BBC Broadcasting House and Orwell’s time there respectively • The exterior was based off of the Senate house where Orwell’s wife worked

6. Ministry of Truth • “The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak—was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” – George Orwell, 1984 (pg. 4) Senate House – University of London

7. Legacy of Orwell • Unfortunately, George Orwell’s fame from 1984 was short-lived • Only about a year after it was published, Orwell passed from tuberculosis • 1984 and the incredible vision of Orwell created pushed for a world that eliminated totalitarianism • In Soviet Russia, the novel was banned on the time it was released since Joseph Stalin was in power • Newspeak, the language of Oceania, was created by Orwell and some of the words are still used in modern politics today such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and Big Brother • This idea of

8. Works Cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell • http://www.biography.com/people/george-orwell-9429833#early-career&awesm=~oBI5SYJU1R0Dik • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czR8gTX-yJY • Pictures from Google Images