He was born on a day like today 115 years ago, he did it in Motihari, a British colony of the India, and under the name of Eric Arthur Blair. Later he would become the prominent writer and journalist we know today under the pseudonym of George Orwell. And he was the author of some of the best known and most influential books of the XNUMXth century, such as 1984 o Rebelion on the farm. I remember her figure with a selection of her phrases and snippets.
George Orwell
Among other things and vicissitudes in his life, Orwell was in the Indian Imperial Police because he did not have the financial means to go to university. Lived in Paris y London, teaching as a school teacher and working as a secondhand bookstore assistant in hampstead heath, in London. But he ended up being a reporter, participating in the Spanish civil war, he worked for the Oriental Service full with the BBC and was a columnist and literary editor for the magazine Tribune.
His best-known works, and which are still valid today, are undoubtedly those mentioned 1984 y Rebelion on the farm, clear analysis and criticism of the troubled times he lived, where imperialism and totalitarianism abounded. But there are also other titles like No white in Paris and London o The days of Burma.
Snippets and phrases
1984
If the leader says of such an event this did not happen, it did not happen. If it says that two and two are five, then two and two are five. This prospect worries me far more than the bombs.
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A dictatorship is not established to safeguard a revolution; the revolution is made to establish a dictatorship.
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If they can make me stop loving you ... that would be true betrayal.
Rebelion on the farm
The tumult soon ceased. The four pigs waited, trembling and guilt written in every furrow of their faces. Napoleon demanded that they confess their crimes. They were the same four pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished Sunday gatherings. Without further demand, they confessed that they had been in secret contact with Snowball since his expulsion, assisted him in the destruction of the mill, and agreed to hand over the "Animal Farm" to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had admitted, confidentially, that he had been a secret agent for Mr. Jones for many years. When they finished their confession, the dogs, without wasting time, tore their throats and meanwhile, Napoleon, in a terrible voice, asked if some other animal had something to confess.
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Let's see, comrades: What is the reality of this life of ours? Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, they supply us with the food we need to sustain ourselves, and those of us capable of working force us to do so to the last atom of our strength; and at the very moment that we are no longer of service, they kill us with appalling cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or laziness after being one year old. There is no free animal in England. The life of an animal is only misery and slavery; This is the truth.
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War is war. The only good human being is the one who has died.
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All animals are the same, but some are more equal than others.
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The astonished animals shifted their gaze from pig to man, and from man to pig; and again from pig to man; but it was already impossible to distinguish who was one and who was another.