George Orwell`s attitude to class:a study of Down and Out in Paris and London, A Clergyman`s Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and the Road to Wigan pier

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ABSTRACT In thisi-.thesis, George Orwell's four books, j3own and Out in Paris and London, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier will be examined to portray the development of Orwell ' s social consciousness in accordance with his personal experiences among the lower classes. In his works, Orwell presents the exploitation of lower classes by the upper classes with picturesque descriptions of poverty in the 1930s. Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are Orwell ' s documentary works in which he presents his views about `class`. A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are social novels in which Orwell reveals the fact that an escape from middle class values is impossible. In all of these works, Orwell's attitude to class is pointed out and elaborated on extensively..111-