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Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of his background—he famously described his family as “lower-upper-middle class”—he never quite fit in, and felt oppressed and outraged by the dictatorial control that the schools he attended exercised over their students’ lives. Orwell worked as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma. He hated his job in Burma, where he was required to enforce the strict laws of a political regime he despised. In 1936, he traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War. The rise of dictators…