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This 5 page paper illustrates the loss of masculinity the men faced as a result of their poverty in Orwell's book, The Road to Wigan Pier. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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them the acclaimed and highly controversial Road to Wigan Pier. Of course, what his critics found controversial and highly upsetting was that he condemned socialism for the effects it had
on the human mind and soul, most notably, the men. While living among the coal miners in England, Orwell observed that the men who endured this type of lifestyle slowly
lost their own identity. Orwells 1984 seemed prophetic in nature, but in his work, The Road to Wigan Pier, he embraces that theme and focuses it on the human condition.
Originally, the work was commissioned by a left-wing group who wanted Orwell to chronicle the effect that the depression was having on the working poor. However, what Orwell found was
that the depression was not the cause of the poor condition of the coal miners; it was the socialist movement which had placed them there. What Orwell goes
into great detail about in the first section of the book is a detailed and focused view of the poor and the unemployed. In the second part Orwell describes his
personal idea of socialism, and what socialism is like in England. The general idea of Orwells is that socialism and communism are no longer movements of the working class, and
instead, have served to almost break mens spirits. He seems to have been illustrating the immense danger a political system could inflict upon a large population. In essence, then, the
first part of the book illustrates the slow emasculation of men who find themselves in this condition. Orwell, it seems, must overcome some assumptions himself about the poor and the
unemployed. His assumptions run the gambit from the idea that the poor and unemployed were somehow subhuman, to the idea that the poor liked to be dirty and being poor
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