Bully in China Shop

In George Orwell’s autobiographical essay, Such, Such Were the Joys, he reveals how he was bullied by schoolmates and even the headmaster at his elite public school because he was a scholarship student and not wealthy enough to afford the fees. Writers exorcise their demons with allegorical tales, and perhaps Orwell hit back at his past with the dark novel 1984, picturing the state as a bully.

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