George Orwell (Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) was born on June 25, 1903 at Motihari, a town of Bengal in India. He is regarded as an English novelist, essayist and critic, most, famous for his two novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) both of which were published towards the end of his life. Orwell his Animal Farm was an anti-soviet satire in a pastoral setting. This novel brought Orwell great acclaim, fame and financial rewards. In 1949, Orwell published another masterpiece Nineteen Eighty Four. In the novel Orwell gave readers a glimpse into what would happen if the government controlled every detail of a person's life down to their own private thoughts. Both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four have been turned into films and have gained tremendous popularity over the years. Orwell opines that socialism is the most effective remedy to modern ill. He was tooth and nail oppossed to the totalitarian regime of Stalinist Russia and Fascist regime of Franco in Spain. In fact he was an English socialist who was oppossed to the continental Marxist type. He was also a social critic because the purpose of his writing was to present social problems. He realised that money is the urgent need of the common man. The message that has been conveyed by Orwell through Animal Farm is that power corrupts those who come to wield it. Moreover, the novelist doesn't present the solution of the problem. He does not point out where the common men are to go for efficient and honest rulers. While doing so he declares that he is not a preacher. But like other novelists he is also an observer
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mirza Ghalib College, Gaya
