Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Beginning of paper
George Orwell expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such, Such
Were the Joys...." He casts himself as a misfit, unable to understand his peers,
the authorities placed over him, and the laws that govern his existence. Orwell
writes, “The good and the possible never seemed to coincide” ....
Middle of paper
.... bump on the hard mattress, on the first night of term, used to give me a
feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: ‘This is reality, this is what you
are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it was a
place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting ....
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Page count: 7 (approximately 250 words per page)
