Orwell's influences

[ihcabih]

Just wondering which world events influenced Orwell's perspective and writing and how they did so?

There may already be a thread like this. If so you can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

[The Atheist]

There were so many, it's hard to point to any one.

The seminal events in his life were pretty much his books:

Spanish Civil War - Homage to Catalonia
The British Empire in action - Burmese Days
Living as a down-and-out in Paris & London in the book of the same name, plus a little bit in Keep the Aspidistra Fyling
Private schoolteaching - A Clergyman's Daughter
Travelling the north of England - The Road to Wigan Pier

And of course, the Russian Revolution and the rise of fascism & communism in Animal Farm and 1984

Women had little impact on his life, which was so short that the published books contain everything he was passionate about.

[Gladys]

And working in Room 101 in the British Civil Service - a bureaucracy.