George Orwell-Anti-Imperialistic outlook and Anti-totalitarian

Abstract

There are two further reasons for his down and out life not stated by Orwell, but which ought, I think, to come into the reckoning. First, Orwell's own impression of working-class life (it appears particularly strongly in Nineteen Eighty-four) as a kind of warm feather bed into which one could sink abandoning all pretensions. His own family, he seemed to feel, had only recently and with great difficulty hauled itself up into the middle classes. The enterprise of a grant parent, the fiothold gained by his father as minor official, his own suffering at school and the sacrifices made by parents and sisters to keep him there, had led only to this a police job which was more than he could stomach. Since the whole upward fight had been in vain, the sensible thing to do was to relax and go down. The resulting hardship would be well compensated by peace of kind.