Jeremy BundaMr. WaitsEnglish 10 H Period 625 April 2014Synthesis Essay First DraftLiving through the war and its enormous political changes, Eric Blair was a figure whose pessimism was significantly influenced by the post-war period. But what was born from Blair was a more significant person known as George Orwell, who challenged the political views of his time by writing 1984, which stands as one of the most powerful political novels of the modernist era, written to expose the horrors of totalitarianism and of influencing the political thought of the 20th century. One of Eric Blair's most important influences in writing was his childhood, which he later described as a paradise lost. Blair spent much of his childhood in England, where he appreciated nature. He would later look back on precious England before the war destroyed it in Coming Up for Air. He was also a precocious boy, writing his first poem at the age of four. In Why I Write, Orwell said, “I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer” (Flynn 12). But his childhood was not perfect and one of the starting points of his pessimism was his school life. At San Cipriano school he experienced what he calls terror. Unfortunately, young Blair continued to wet the bed, and the principal eventually beat him for it. It was the starting point of his pessimism, and left St. Cyprian with “failure, failure, failure – failure behind me, failure before me” (Flynn 24). Even at Eton things weren't easy, because he relaxed and didn't work. He ultimately came second to last in his class, forcing him to take up service in Burma. Eric went to Burma in 1922 and became a probationary assistant superintendent of police. His experience in Burma, his guilt for oppressing the Burmese... middle of paper... emotion does not speak for itself. In the end, the tyranny of 1984 only becomes repulsive while Animal Farm is tragic. But despite Lewis's harsh criticism of the novel, 1984 is in itself an extraordinary novel, one that has a strong voice in politics. According to Deutscher himself, “Few novels written in this generation have achieved as great a popularity as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Few, if any, have had a similar impact on politics” (Deutscher 500). However, like Lewis, Deutscher also dismissively criticizes the novel for its excessive horror and lack of originality. The first makes the reader focus only on the scary events of the story and not on the main idea of ​​the author's political views. The latter is taken from Deutscher's claims that Orwell borrowed story elements of 1984 only from Evgenii Zamyatin's book We.