George Orwell (by the pseudonym of Erick Blair) was a British novelist, journalist, and critic. He was born in 1903 in Bengal, India, Orwell received his education at a series of private schools, including Eton, an elite school in England. Since a young age Orwell already suspected of the entrenched class system in English society that made him a socialist, speaking against the excesses of governments and fighting briefly for the socialist cause during the Spanish Civil War. Those inspirational events influenced him to write his novels Animal Farm and 1984; both share a similar critic of political
