George Orwell George Orwell was born in 1903 in a small village near the border or Nepal called Matihari in India. At that time India was controlled by the British Empire. Through out his family there was a strong Indian Army influence. His mother Ida Mabel Blair was over eighteen years younger than her husband Richard Blair was was. George also had an older sister named Marjorie Blair. As a middle class family, they made most …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…Down. In 1943 he left the BBC to become literary editor of the tribune, and began writing Animal Farm [http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/bio.htm]. In 1944 the Orwell’s adopted a son, but in 1945 his wife died during an operation. Towards the end of war Orwell went to Europe as a reporter. The islands climate was unsuitable for someone suffering from tuberculosis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflects the bleakness of human suffering, the indignity of pain.