Abstract – scaricare il file per l'appunto completo Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, Orwell was the son of a minor colonial official. As a small child, he was taken to England by his mother, and spent a happy childhood. In an essay Orwell remembered the discontent of his school days, due to the physical discomfort, the loneliness, the lack of privacy, the humiliating punishments, the pressure to conform to the values of the English public school tradition. He was happier at Eton, where his tutor gave him the freedom to choose the topics of his essays and helped him shape a vigorous prose style. Orwell was developing an independent-minded personality, indifference to accepted values, and professed atheism and socialism. On leaving school he passed the India Office examinations for the India Imperial Police, opting to serve – segue nel file da scaricare
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