George Orwell

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Mind Map on George Orwell, created by Kathryn Kilby on 15/05/2016.
Kathryn Kilby
Mind Map by Kathryn Kilby, updated more than 1 year ago
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George Orwell
  1. 1903-1950
    1. Born Eric Arthur Blair, in Bengal, India
      1. Son of an opium agent in Bengal government
        1. "Lower-upper middle-class"
        2. Taken to England in 1906-7 (?) by his mother
          1. Attended an Anglican school in Henly-on-Thames
            1. Scholarship to St Cyprian's prep school
              1. Scholarship to Eton College
                1. Intellectual elite
                  1. Developed passion for lit.
              2. Goes to Burma aged 19 to be a policeman
                1. Practical consequences of imperialism
                  1. Returns to London aged 24 to make living as a writer
                    1. London still focal point of society
                      1. 1928: Moved to Paris for a year and a half to write (unsuccessfully)
                2. Married in 1936
                  1. Went to fight in Spain later that year for the republic
                    1. Escaped after being wounded a year later
                      1. Made repeated attempts to enter army despite tuberculosis
                  2. Social impact
                    1. Early 20th C. marked boost in philanthropy
                      1. Orwell's writing situated in this
                        1. Lived in Paris in poverty willingly
                          1. Social investigation
                    2. Literature
                      1. Orwell didn't have a wide audience
                        1. 'Animal Farm' brought him instant fame
                        2. Themes
                          1. Poverty & the lower-classes
                            1. War & the military
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