Character profile
George Orwell
maleFirst seen chapter 2Last seen chapter 2
Born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, Bengal; father’s opium department job; returned to England; served in Burma; quit police 1927; adopted pseudonym 1933; first book Down and Out; wrote 1946 essay; began Nineteen Eighty‑Four; political stance left of left; critique of Labour; resisted cuts to Newspeak appendix