GEORGE ORWELL
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George Orwells early novels illuminate his two great books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and George Orwell himself.George Orwell was born in India and educated at Eton, after which he joined the Imperial Police in Burma where he served for six years, developing a disgust for imperialism which led him to resign. Burmese Days, based on these years, is a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian (New Statesman). It is also the story of a sensitive lonely Englishman with an affection for the Burmese, and a longing for a particular young Englishwoman, who finds himself trapped by a dishonest system and oppressive society.In A Clergymans Daughter, a weak-willed unhappy spinster, daughter of a disagreeable clergyman in a small East Anglian village, achieves a brief and accidental liberation from her mundane life. However, Orwells biographer D. J. Taylor, writes The great fascination of A Clergymans Daughter is that it is essentially the same plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which doesnt appear until fourteen years later. Its about somebody who is spied upon, and eavesdropped upon, and oppressed by vast exterior forces they can do nothing about. The last scene of A Clergymans Daughter has Dorothy back in her fathers rectory in Suffolk, still doing the mundane, routine tasks that she was doing at the start of the novel, having rebelled against the life shes enmeshed in still. Just like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, shes had to come to a kind of accommodation with it. Its a very prophetic novel in terms of what came later in Orwells writing.The Aspidistra is a plant that tenaciously survives forever on many British windowsills, without ever thriving. It is a metaphor for the life of the British lower-middle class. Keep the Apsidistra Flying is a pointed observation of the British class system which is based on the worship of the Money
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