George Orwell is an exceptional novelist. His book "1984" is included in almost all possible ratings. This novel even fell under the prohibition of the most democratic country in the US, it was not printed in the USSR until 1989. His political allegory, "The Animal Farm", was one of the first books to highlight the Holodomor and clearly showed the essence of the totalitarian regime.
It was George Orwell who first used the term "Cold War" in the essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", written on October 10, 1945. Orwell's frustration in the ideals and the then system came during his service at the Police of India and Burma. After his release, he often had to live in the poorest neighborhoods. Perhaps it is from there that the author's frankness appeared, as did the understanding that the most realistic things are almost always poor.
Orwell in the school curriculum.
Students need to study the works of Orwell at their lessons in order to expand the outlook. The choice of the novels of this English writer for the school curriculum is very appropriate because it would be a huge mistake not to let the children learn about the life and activities of this person. A very successful task for a young person in order to understand the writer's stories is to write essay and thoughts on the themes raised in the works. George Orwell's "1984" is one of the best examples of the book, about which the student can write his or her own 1984 book essay.
Oeuvre.
Every year, his novels were published one after another: "Burmese Days" (1934), "Clergymen`s Daughter" (1935), "The lion and the unicorn" (1936). To write a work in which the top of government was called pigs ("Farm of Animals") meant signing a death sentence. This death sentence was for Orwell unknown to the domestic reader almost half a century his last novel "1984".
In the former USSR with the work of Orwell readers became acquainted only in 1988, when the magazines published the "Farm of Animals". At the same period was taken long-term taboo from another anti-dystrophy of George Orwell - "1984", a novel that in the Soviet Union was silenced or treated as anti-Soviet, reactionary. And in 2009, the influential British newspaper The Times announced the novel “1984” as the most important book published over the past 60 years.
George Orwell wrote this novel on the island of Jura, in an old farmhouse, where, after burying his wife, he moved with his adopted son. He retired so that even friends could barely reach him: the house that the writer leased was 25 km away from the only store there, and about 8 of these 25 km had to go on foot.
Lonely, incomprehensible to contemporaries Orwell at the end of his life as much as possible differed from people and civilization by kilometers of land and water, but he thought and wrote exactly about humanity and civilization. There are many prophecies in this novel. And they are not outdated. Probably because the writer not only carried his characters into the future - he lived in this future with his thoughts.
Recognition.
UNESCO acknowledged that Orwell's work had an impact on human development and now also had a significant impact on readers. Orwell's son Richard Blair said he was proud not only of this achievement but also of those people who made great efforts to recognize Orwell's heritage. George Orwell's archive is stored at the University College London since 1960. The writer himself kept very few personal documents, and manuscripts - even less. Accordingly, its archive occupies only three meters in the repository.
In 2013, The Guardian interviewed: "Was George Orwell correct in his predictions of the future? » That is, whether Orwell's fears of totalitarianism, constant observation of people and language deformation occurred in the modern world. 89% of respondents answered "Yes".
George Orwell's personal impulses are the fear of control and destruction, as well as the thirst for freedom and life. He is very liberal, a defender of values, a person of individualism: an individual approach, an individual vision. Orwell's peculiarity was that he was able to convey his anxiety, his concern for the audience, so in 1949, everyone was quite impressively scared, and so that this fear still does not disappear.