“ For many people the fellow-feeling is harder to take than the anger, especially when he does not regret but actually celebrates aspects of working-class life. ”
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | The Road to Wigan Pier |
| Topic | anger regret |
| Date | 1937 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200391.txt |
Context
“This accounts also for the pendular swings in his writing: from anger–as he swipes at yet another hawser of class–to deep and sympathetic sentiment when his imagination opens to new insights, new fellow-feelings, as those hawsers fall away. For many people the fellow-feeling is harder to take than the anger, especially when he does not regret but actually celebrates aspects of working-class life. He makes some characteristically wild generalisations even about the working class; such as when he asserts that ‘during the past dozen years the English working class have grown servile with a rather horrifying rapidity’.”
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