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George Orwell
  • Why study the life of an author?
  • (apply to our rhetorical strategies of logos,
    ethos, pathos)

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George Orwell
  • 1903- 1950
  • British author
  • Birth name Eric Arthur Blair
  • Born in British India
  • Staunchly opposed totalitarianism
  • Called for revolution to fight it
  • Fought in the Spanish Civil War

3
Excerpts from Orwells Why I Write
If you have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 come to the front of
the room please!
4
In your notes, list several things that
influenced Orwell as a child.
5
In your notes list the four reasons Orwell
believes people write. Do you agree/disagree
with these reasons? What other reasons do people
write?
Excerpts from Orwells Why I Write
If you have 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 come to the front of
the room please!
6
Animal Farm Political Purpose
  • Addresses the corruption of the revolution by its
    leaders
  • Argues that human corruption causes revolution to
    fail
  • Argues that human ignorance and indifference
    enable corruption to continue and worsen

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Excerpts from Orwells Why I Write
Why does Orwell feel it is important to know
about an authors background?
If you have 11, 12, 13, 14 come to the front of
the room please!
9
Every line of serious work that I have written
since 1936 has been written, directly or
indirectly, against totalitarianism and for
democratic socialism as I understand it.
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