Orwell's Take On Society in “Marrakech”

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“Marrakech” written by George Orwell has many impacts towards how poverty and discrimination reflected the society during World War II. World War II was an event that involved the conflict of several disputes between nations and a massive racism from the Europeans towards the Jews that Adolf Hitler made. They believed that Jews were inferior in the human race and were just like a plague. “Marrakech” is a narrative that takes place in Morocco where Orwell describes the deficiency and misery the Jews and the Black people suffer during a period of an eminent discrimination. Women also underwent the experience of discrimination by men. Orwell talks about the immense poverty, which is the lowest social class that several Europeans, Jews, Arabs, and black people experienced. The definition of discrimination is very objective. Discrimination is when a person or a large group of people judge people in an appalling way just because they are from a different color, ethics, physical attributes, beliefs, etc. Poverty is another key concept that is managed throughout “Marrakech”. Poverty is the despising misery that a human can be subjected to. Orwell reaches its effectiveness in his essay in a manner that he makes the reader know about his main purpose of how society reflected the misery of the human being during a time where equality did not really exist. Coming further, poverty and discrimination during the society where Orwell lived and perceived will be explained in detail. The efficiency of Orwell’s essay will be justified in a clear way.

As portrayed above, poverty is the misery of life. “No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lo...

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...ade wrong judgments and critics towards other races.

In conclusion, “Marrakech” is basically an essay that talks exactly about the society in which Orwell lived and experienced various encounters with examples of poverty and discrimination. His ideas are clearly explained in the narrative and he completes the goal into making it effective with arguments that have real support and evidence. Orwell describes the poverty and discrimination in the European society. The lowest class and the ones that are discriminated are the Jews, the blacks, and some Europeans that are also deprived. Throughout time, discrimination has lowered a lot, but it is still seen in every society. Poverty is still seen and will always be seen because it is something inevitable because not everyone has the opportunity to succeed for talent; it has always been by influences or social status.

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