Author(s)

Li Ling

Corresponding Author

Li Ling

Abstract

Marrakech tells what the author, George Orwell, see, hear, and feels in the inside city of Morocco, which is colonized by France and Spain at that time. In Marrakech, George Orwell vividly and objectively described six isolated scenes：an ordinary and simple funeral; a man hired by government begging for bread; awkward situation of Jewish; the poor farming condition for peasants; an old woman carrying heavy burden; the black soldiers marching. Orwell shows the readers a profoundly suffering nation and his hostile attitude towards the injustice of the society. Suppressing his indignation, George makes no comment on what he sees and hears, however, he indicates the truth that the colonized imperialism is built on all these very facts. George Orwell expresses his deep sympathy for the poor colonized people and especially women through metaphor and analogy in his honest words, reflecting the crimes of colonialism and imperialism. For all of these, George Orwell defines the wintry conscience of a generation.

Keywords

George Orwell, Marrakech, Colonialism, Conscience, Metaphor, Analogy