How Did George Orwell Influence The World

George Orwell is one of America's greatest authors who created a new way of thinking around the world. His works not only inspired the world around him, but also question what should be true of this world and the way it should work. Like all authors, Orwell was influenced one way or another, either by events or other authors during his lifetime. George Orwell’s life experiences obtained by living during the time of WW1, Spanish Civil War, and other drastic events impacted his philosophical way of seeing politics and the world in of itself. Which explains the reasoning of his ideals expressed in his best known novel, 1984. George Orwell was born on June 25, 1901, grew up in Bengal, India, who was highly enthusiastic about writing. (biography)
He enlisted into the socialist militia in the Spanish Civil war in December 1936. Here he published the novel Homage to Catalonia, which described his first ever journey to Spain and the trials he overcame during the war . When joining Orwell intended only on writing newspaper articles but instead was joined into the militia. He was given training before entered into the battle straight on. In his novel he mentions the characteristics of the rifle given to him, which just emphasizes the tone and imagery used in this novel. “It was a German Mauser dated 1896 - more than forty years old! It was rusty, the bolt was stiff, the wooden barrel-guard was split; one glance down the muzzle showed that it was corroded and past praying for. Most of the rifles were equally bad, some of them even worse. ...The sergeant gave us five minutes' 'instruction', which consisted in explaining how you loaded a rifle and how you took the bolt to pieces. ...Cartridges were handed out, fifty to a man, and then the ranks were formed and we strapped our kits on our backs and set out for the front line, about three miles away." (Orwell) During this time while serving, Orwell describes his experiences in the trenches as a “surreal experience”. He was also shot in the throat by a sniper and had to be hospitalized the next few months, because of this it worsened his already occurring bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. His militia was later found out to be outlawed, they were all arrested and executed, but only he survived by barely escaping to france. His experiences in Spain caused him to become a revolutionary socialist, fighting in this war confirmed Orwell’s hate for the totalitarian system of government and only encouraged his liberal and socialist ideals. While serving in the Spanish war, he fought in the lines of the Partido Obrero de Unificación