of this study and her endurance during my long study days at
My special thanks go to ™zgr Ceylan, who constantly granted me her moral
support. She was always there when I needed her.
CHAPTER THE AUTHOR: GEORGE ORWELL Presentation
This chapter introduces general information about George Orwell's life. It
includes chronological progress of his life and his political convictions.
Furthermore, important events, such as The Russian Revolution and The
Spanish Civil War which had significant influence on his commitment to
write Animal Farm will be discussed. Lastly, general information about
The British author George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born
in Motihari, India, June 25, 1903. His father was an important British
civil servant in India, which was then part of the British Empire. A few
years after Eric was born, he retired on a low pension and moved back to
England. Though their income was not much enough, the Blair family sent
their son away to boarding school which was an exclusive preparatory school,
to prepare him for Eton Collage. Eric then won a scholarship to Eton
Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he
wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the
Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime
necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes",
inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools of England (In
After the education at Eton College in England, Eric joined the Indian
Imperial Police in British-Ruled Burma in 1922. There he witnessed
oppression again, but this time he was looking at things from the top.
Having served five years in Burma, he resigned in 1927 and turned back to
Europe and lived in Paris for more than a year. Though he wrote novels and
short stories he found nobody to get them published. He worked as a tutor
and even as...