George Orwell and "Animal Farm", Appunti di Inglese

Scarica George Orwell and "Animal Farm" e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! George Orwell (1903-1950) ® Eric Arthur Blair e BorninIndia in 1903, left in 1904 with his mother ® Joined the Indian Imperial Police, attracted by the idea of travel and adventure: spent five years in Burma before resigning and headed off to Paris ® Returned in England in 1929 e 1933: “Down and Out in Paris and London”, a reportage of these experiences e Workedasateacher, journalist and bookshop assistant ® 1935: “A Clergyman’s Daughter” ® 1936: “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” ® 1937: “The Road to Wigan Pier”, an examination of the conditions of poverty in the North of England, Orwell integrated himself with miners, the unemployed and the oppressed, and criticised English socialism as being ineffectual, subject to class prejudice and lacking linguistic clarity ® 1946: “Politics and the English Language”, an essay about lacking linguistic clarity ® Travelledto Spain to support the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War ® 1938: “Homage to Catalonia” is his personal report and commentary on the war > he became an adamant anti-Stalinist e Spentthe winter of 1938 recovering from tuberculosis in Morocco ® 1939: “Coming up for Air” e Waswilling to serve when WWII broke out but was declared unfit e In1943he became literary editor of Tribune ® 1945: “Animal Farm”, a highly successful satirical fable based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution + became war correspondent for The Observer e Spent 1946 living on the remote island of Jura in Scotland e 1949: “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, a dystopian novel ® The Scottish climate exacerbated his tubercular condition and died on 21% January 1950 in London Animal Farm (http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Animal.Farm/preview.html) Chapter One: Mr. Jones lives on the Manor Farm, he is an alcoholic. The animals of the farm go to the barn to hear what old Major, the well-respected prized Middle White Boar, has to say about a recent dream. Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher are the three farm dogs. Boxer, and Clover are the two cart-horses. Muriel is the white goat, and Benjamin is the donkey. Old Major tells the animals that humans are enemies of animals, because humans force animals to do all the jobs they cannot do. He also says they must work to overthrow the human race. Old Major teaches them a song, but while they sing it they wake up Mr. Jones, so they must go to sleep.