About George Orwell & Breif information about book Aniaml Farm

1. George Orwell

2. About Author
Eric Arthur Blair
25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950
Born in eastern India
Son of a British colonial civil servant
Educated in England
English novelist and journalist
The 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture

3. Wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction
and polemical journalism
His work is marked by
• Clarity
• Awareness of social injustice
• Opposition to totalitarianism
• Commitment to democratic socialism
His work continues to influence popular & political culture

4. George Orwell’s Books

8. Term “Orwellian” has entered the language together with
several of his neologisms, including-
Cold War, Big Brother, thought police, Room 101, Double
think & thought crime

9. George Orwell’s Quotes

16. About Book
 Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel
 Published in England on 17 August 1945
 The book reflects events leading up to the Russian
Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the
Soviet Union
 The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
 Orwell wrote the book from November 1943–February
1944

17. Efforts to find Publisher
 Initially rejected by a number of British and American
publishers
 He encountered great difficulty getting the manuscript
published
 It became a great commercial success when it did finally
appear partly because the Cold War so quickly
followed World War II

18. The novel addresses not only the corruption of the
revolution by its leaders, but also the ways wickedness,
indifference, ignorance, greed, and myopia corrupt the
revolution.
It also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to
problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen
if a smooth transition to a people's government is not
achieved

19. Adaptations
Animal Farm has been adapted to film twice
The 1954 Animal Farm film was an animated feature and
the 1999 Animal Farm film was a TV live action version
Both differ from the novel and have been accused of
taking significant liberties, including sanitizing some
aspects