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Despite later coining the famous phrase “Big Brother,” he had no brothers, older or younger.
This led Orwell to the calculation that he lived in a world where it was impossible to be good—he
He emerged from the school persuaded of two ugly rules of life: that the strong would always beat the weak, and that any project he attempted would fail.
It would be the first time he published under the name “George Orwell,” combining a very English first name with that of an estuarial stream south of Southwold, the River Orwell.
In Burma he had voluntarily joined the European oppressors. Now as penance he would voluntarily live among the oppressed of Europe.
His perspective was that the powerful would almost always try to obscure the truth.
