In this narrative, I identify seven main roles which Eric Arthur Blair performs throughout his life. Blair-Orwell is shown as enacting or faking or impersonating such characters in his own life-drama as Class Warrior, Imperial Policeman, Autoethnographer, Womaniser, Soldier, Socialist, and Political Writer.
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