Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Beginning of Essay
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 p .... Middle of Essay .... 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 situation, realizes he is
alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the image of the “warm nest,”
a womb, from which the child is thrown, then innocently forced into a
destructive reality. This r ....
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