Connect the author's life to the plot, setting, characters or symbols in the novel

's book
ends with a very bleak tone.   is reduced to a walking zombie, a stark contrast from the
resistance he strove to bring about in his own life and the sensuousness displayed at moment
with.  He learns to "love Big Brother" and then he dies.  Orwell's bleak ending to the
book might find some connection with his own life as the book was the last one he was to write.
 He died upon its completion, when tuberculosis was taking its toll on him.  Violating the
doctor's orders to limit work to only one hour a day, Orwell pushed himself to finish the book
at a point where he knew he was dying, something brought out in the bleakness of its ending.
 Another element present was how Orwell envisioned the new world order...