Alienation in Some of George Orwell’s Novels

The first Chapter of this study sheds light on the various personal, social and political influences affecting Orwell’s life and writing career. It is also an attempt to prove that Orwell’s own feeling of alienation has affected his creation of the characters of his novels. The frist, and probably most important, influence to affect George Orwell, the man and, consequently, the writer can traced to his childhood which he spent in a very snobbish upper class boarding school where most of fact, boys were so much better-off than he was.Chapter two is devoted to Orwell’s firt novel Burmese Davs in which he satirizes imperialism in general and the british imperial rule in India in narticular. The protagonist of the novel,flory, is an English timber merchant living in Buma during the rule of the British.Chapter three discusses the theme of alienation in Keep the Aspidistra Flying which is mainly about the destructive power of money and the insecurity of modern man in mass civilization.Chapter four is concerned with Orwell’s last novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which is essentially an attack against totalitarianism which, according to Orwell, is able to affect the very inner structure of man and threaten the human values which are inherent in him as an individual.