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Like the Aenied, and all epic poems, 1984 begins in the middle of things. Winston's character is modeled off of an historic leader (Winston Churchill). He has experience great hardships and losses. His actions seem out of his control.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Piety of 1984: Virgil and Orwell
It has just crossed my mind, that perhaps Orwell drew or grew from a prior writing, the Aenied, in the same way Virgil expanded from Homer's epic poems.
Like the Aenied, and all epic poems, 1984 begins in the middle of things. Winston's character is modeled off of an historic leader (Winston Churchill). He has experience great hardships and losses. His actions seem out of his control.
Like the Aenied, and all epic poems, 1984 begins in the middle of things. Winston's character is modeled off of an historic leader (Winston Churchill). He has experience great hardships and losses. His actions seem out of his control.
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