When George Orwell was mentioned in class, about his politics mainly, I immediately sparked an idea to mention on this blog.
In another course (HIST 103 with Prof. Byrne, to be exact) I read his book Homage to Catalonia, in which he recounted his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War- Orwell fought on the side of the Communists. Mostly, I found it really interesting that this person, whom I wrote a historical essay on, was mentioned in passing in this course. While I knew that Orwell was a very influential writer, I didn’t think that he would have commented on other works, especially Guillver’s Travels.
I don’t have anything particularly profound to write in this post, unfortunately. I was just excited to find connections in my courses thus far this semester.
In addition to this Orwell mention, just the other day in my ANTH 217 class about Language and Communication, we were discussing the change of language over time and as an example, my Professor played a segment of one of shakespeare’s text, and then proceed to lament about how we ran out of time and how she wanted to play a part of Beowulf being read aloud. I was disappointed at that point, because I will take any chance to listen to Beowulf, no matter what context!