George Orwell the name of the author printed on the cover of Nineteen Eighty Four, is not actually the name of the man who wrote Nineteen Eighty Four. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair.
Eric was born in Motihari in Bengal, India on the 25th of June, 1903. In 1907 the Blairs returned to England to live and in 1911 at the age of 7 Eric was sent of to boarding school at St. Cyprian's preparatory school in Sussex. He experiences there are summed up by his essay "Such, Such, Were the Joys". It was at boarding school, that Eric's flair for writing and his observations of injustices took place. In he's essay "Such,such, were the joys" he writes: " I knew that bed-wetting was (a) wicked, (b) outside my control..... It was possible, therefore, to commit a sin without knowing that you committed it, without wanting to commit it and without being able to avoid it. …
