The answer to OP's question can be found in this superb docu/drama film (link below) that reconstructs Orwell's life using only things he wrote as the dialogue. As he was a superb essayist and journalist he captured how his life unfolded in literature, leaving us with a record of from where and how his ideas were formed. From being a military policeman and watching a condemned man hang, to reading knowingly false propaganda on BBC News, to being shot in the throat whilst fighting in the Spanish civil war, his life experiences shaped him in profound ways until the entirety of it all came together in the writing of 1984.
The answer to OP's question can be found in this superb docu/drama film (link below) that reconstructs Orwell's life using only things he wrote as the dialogue. As he was a superb essayist and journalist he captured how his life unfolded in literature, leaving us with a record of from where and how his ideas were formed. From being a military policeman and watching a condemned man hang, to reading knowingly false propaganda on BBC News, to being shot in the throat whilst fighting in the Spanish civil war, his life experiences shaped him in profound ways until the entirety of it all came together in the writing of 1984.
This is an excellent and rewarding watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6txpumkY5I&ab_channel=AlbionNoise