The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

George Orwell takes a vacation up north to describe life as we know it to the rest of the world. He has a day out in the coal mines, tours the dwellings of the working class peoples and examines their social welfare. His efforts to create sympathy for the working class is heeded by describing their unsociable habits and squalor. When he arrives at Wigan Pier he finds it to be lost, as if all hope for these people has vanished. We are then treated to Orwell’s battle for equality under the mantle of Socialism; we learn much of his own background and life travels. But what he does do well is convey the message that these people are trapped in their hardships and that their habits are very hard to break. He concludes how the emergence of the machine has dominated over us all; and how we must keep funding the machine in order to survive as our population grows.

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