Orwell stands out from the other great writers of the 20th century because of his political awareness and opposition to totalitarianism, Stalinism, fascism, and social injustice. He is best known for his novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, both of which he wrote under a pen name with which you may be more familiar: George Orwell. Blair was born in Bengal, wrote his first articles in French, worked as a police officer in Burma, and settled in England. He exited the womb English but entered the grave an outspoken citizen of Earth. The man in the photograph, Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 1950), was a novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and, most importantly, an exemplary human being. It’s an ironic look actually is what it is, and it’s the look of someone who suffered a great deal. But there is a final element of pessimism to it, as well as, I think, some of the hard-to-understand handsomeness for which we English people are so rightly famed. It’s the look of someone who’s been through quite a lot and has tried his best.
But yet it’s not the look of someone with no sense of humor.
A rather dolorous look in some ways, a rather solemn look. This is how the writer Christopher Hitchens interpreted the face 1: A slightly tall, angular, shy, but not unconfident Englishman, with a hollow-cheek look. Take just a moment to really consider that question before moving on. What words would you use to describe this face?
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