A Comparison between Orwell's concerns and methods.

... A Comparison between Orwell's concerns and methods of making his points with Swift's Eric Arthur Blair, now more commonly known as George Orwell was born in India in 1903, and his father was an official in the Indian Civil Service. Throughout Orwell's childhood he felt a deep sense of isolation, a factor to later influence his writing. In 1911 he was sent to a boarding school on the Sussex coast where he was distinguished by his poverty and intellectual brilliance. He grew up a morose, eccentric boy and in 1953, wrote of his miseries in an autobiographical essay, 'Such, Such Were The Joys.' Orwell won scholarships to Winchester and Eton. He chose Eton and stayed from 1917 to 1921, and during this time published his first writing in college periodicals. Despite being offered a scholarship to University, Orwell became an Imperial servant at Burma in 1922, serving in a

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