Autobiography

                George Orwell is the author of the best selling novel, Animal Farm.    George Orwell was born on June 25th, 1903 and passed away on January 21st, 1950 after a three- year battle against lung disease.  Orwell was born in India but moved to England with his mother and sister shortly after birth.  As Orwell lived through poverty and hardship, his hatred towards dictatorship and the existence of the working classes increased.  Being involved in the Police force also increased and expanded his understanding of imperialism and the negative effects following it.   All his works written since 1936 have been directly opposed to totalitarianism and praising democratic socialism. This hatred and resentment towards totalitarianism inspired his dystopian novels and works, including Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.   Orwell has a strong point of view on many of the major political movements during his lifetime.  He was a democratic socialist; an outspoken critic of Joseph Stalin.  He was best remembered for his political criticism as an anti-totalitarian.   One of his best selling novel written in 1943-1944, Animal Farm is a satirical novel, criticizing Stalin and his totalitarian ways.  When the book finally published in 1945, it became a massive commercial success because the cold war was quickly followed by World War II.  Hatred towards Stalin and the Soviet Union was at a high point during this time period.   As a result, any criticism towards Stalin was largely welcomed.