Eric Artur Blair, who would later become known as George Orwell, was born in 1903, in Bengal, India, the son of a minor British official in India. He was taken to England when he was two years old. After school, he became an officer in the Indian imperial police in Burma. He returned to England in 1927.
Orwell was commissioned in 1936 to write a book report on the living conditions of coal miners in northern England. In the following years, Orwell went to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil war. After some period at the front, he was shot to the neck. He escaped across the border to France and England.
Orwell spent his final years working on his last novel-1984. This novel shows that we present our human society as being one of free initiative, individualism, and idealism when in reality these are mostly words. We are centralized managerial industrial society, with an essentially bureaucratic nature.
The importance of Orwell’s concept of war lies in a number of very keen observations. First of all, he shows the economic significance of continuous arms production without which the modern economic system can not function. Second important aspect is his description of the nature of truth. Reality exists in the human mind and the Political Party holds a truth as the truth. By controlling men’s mind the Party controls the truth.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If person surrendered his independence and his integrity completely, if he experiences himself as a thing which belongs either to the state, the party or the corporation then two plus two are five.
Orwell wants to warn and to awaken us. Big brother is watching you.
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