![]() ![]() Orwell’s classic work is often used by scholars to draw conclusions about class dynamics and division, as the second section is centred around this theme. The second part, on the other hand, is a more direct and pointed critique of socialism and of the English middle classes. It describes what he saw, his physical experiences and the people he met. ![]() The book is divided in to two easily distinguishable parts the first section is the direct result of Orwell’s travels around Wigan, Barnsley and Sheffield. ![]() His research eventually resulted in the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937. Over a period of two months in 1936, George Orwell visited industrial towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire to uncover the living and working conditions of the unemployed in the North of England. Orwell and ‘Northernness’: The Road to Wigan Pier Or rather it is not so much like a stone wall as the plate-glass of an aquarium it is so easy to pretend that it isn’t there, and so impossible to get through it.” Whichever way you turn this curse of class-difference confronts you like a wall of stone. “I liked them and hoped they liked me but I went among them as a foreigner, and both of us were aware of it. ![]()
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