George Orwell - The two masterpieces

<p class=ql-align-justify>George Orwell holds a unique place in contemporary English literature. He used facts and his own observation and when there was no actual reporting to be done invention took over as in <em>Animal Farm</em> and <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em> and his clear vision realistic deduction and profound understanding of human behaviour enabled him to reach the inner recesses of the reader's mind and startle him to reflection and self-examination. He said that one of his motives for writing was a 'desire to see things as they are to find true facts and store them up for the use of posterity... In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books... When I sit down to write a book I do not say to myself I am going to produce a work of art. I write it because there is some lie I want to expose some fact to which I want to draw attention and my initial intention is to get a hearing.' </p><p> </p>