George Orwell
I am taking a writing seminar this semester about George Orwell. However, as I was reading the syllabus, I came across this troublesome phrase:
"In this course, we will look at Orwell as essayist, satirist, and moralist, reading such celebrated, idiosyncratic essays as "Shooting an Elephant", "Politics and the English Language", and "Marrakech"; and we will also consier Orwell as a man of his times, reading both Animal Farm and 1984 and associated critical works by his peers as well as contemporary scholars, some of whom (e.g. feminists) are resolutely unimpressed by the Orwell myth and the Orwell "persona".
Can any of you shed some light on this? I've read Orwell in the past and have never heard any feminist arguments against him. Should I be wary of Orwell? Should I be wary of my professor? Should I be wary of my mostly-male seminar?
Thanks.
Edited so a few people will stop letting their insecurities get them best of them to the extent that they can't consider what may be a perfectly pertinent point.
"In this course, we will look at Orwell as essayist, satirist, and moralist, reading such celebrated, idiosyncratic essays as "Shooting an Elephant", "Politics and the English Language", and "Marrakech"; and we will also consier Orwell as a man of his times, reading both Animal Farm and 1984 and associated critical works by his peers as well as contemporary scholars, some of whom (e.g. feminists) are resolutely unimpressed by the Orwell myth and the Orwell "persona".
Can any of you shed some light on this? I've read Orwell in the past and have never heard any feminist arguments against him. Should I be wary of Orwell? Should I be wary of my professor? Should I be wary of my mostly-male seminar?
Thanks.
Edited so a few people will stop letting their insecurities get them best of them to the extent that they can't consider what may be a perfectly pertinent point.