ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Orwell, Wigan Pier, Why I Write
15 Feb 2017
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The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the english genius ; the road to wigan pier. Every line of serious work that i have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as i understand it. It seems to me nonsense in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. The life of man is nasty, brutish, and short and remains that way even after the rebellion commenting on the nature of humans and political governance: concern with power of language. For orwell, language is a means of both control and liberation ex. 7 commandments in novel are altered subtly throughout the text and the animals don"t catch on until the last page. One could not have a better example of the moral and emotional shallowness of our time, than the fact that we are not all more or less pro-
