Animal Farm And 1984 By George Orwell

George Orwell disguised criticism towards Russia in his novels Animal Farm and 1984, which caused much controversy in the mid-1900’s, and caused his books to be banned in Russia for years until later being turned into movies. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India to Richard Walmesley and Ida Mabel Blair. His family struggled to make ends meet and brought George to England as a toddler. The people in his school and neighborhood would tease him and looked down on him because he was not from a rich family, even the school administrators. This made him sensitive to the cruelty of “social snobbery”. His dad was a colonial civil servant and he grew up in a world of war. This made him want to recapture an era