Título: The Road To Wigan Pier
Autor: Orwell, George
Sinopse: The Road To Wigan Pier By George Orwell. In Wigan I Stayed For A While With A Miner Who Was Suffering From Nystagmus. He Could See Across The Room But Not Much Further. He Had Been Drawing Compensation Of Twenty-nine Shillings A Week For The Past Nine Months, But The Colliery Company Were Now Talking Of Putting Him On 'partial Compensation' Of Fourteen Shillings A Week. It All Depended On Whether The Doctor Passed Him As Fit For Light Work 'on Top'. Even If The Doctor Did Pass Him There Would, Needless To Say, Be No Light Work Available, But He Could Draw The Dole And The Company Would Have Saved Itself Fifteen Shillings A Week. Watching This Man Go To The Colliery To Draw His Compensation, I Was Struck By The Profound Differences That Are Still Made By Status. Here Was A Man Who Had Been Half Blinded In One Of The Most Useful Of All Jobs And Was Drawing A Pension To Which He Had A Perfect Right, If Anybody Has A Right To Anything. Yet He Could Not, So To Speak, Demand This Pension - He Could Not, For Instance, Draw It When And How He Wanted It. He Had To Go To The Colliery Once A Week At A Time Named By The Company, And When He Got There He Was Kept Waiting About For Hours In The Cold Wind. For All I Know He Was Also Expected To Touch His Cap And Show Gratitude To Whoever Paid Him; At Any Rate He Had To Waste An Afternoon And Spend Sixpence In Bus Fares. It Is Very Different For A Member Of The Bourgeoisie, Even Such A Down-at-heel Member As I Am. Even When I Am On The Verge Of Starvation I Have Certain Rights Attaching To My Bourgeois Status. I Do Not Earn Much More Than A Miner Earns, But I Do At Least Get It Paid Into My Bank In A Gentle-manly Manner And Can Draw It Out When I Choose. And Even When My Account Is Exhausted The Bank People Are Passably Polite. This Business Of Petty Inconvenience And Indignity, Of Being Kept Waiting About, Of Having To Do Everything At Other People's Convenience, Is Inherent In Working-class Life. A Thousand Influences Constantly Press A Working Man Down Into A Passive Role. He Does Not Act, He Is Acted Upon. He Feels Himself The Slave Of Mysterious Authority And Has A Firm Conviction That 'they' Will Never Allow Him To Do This, That, And The Other. Once When I Was Hop-picking I Asked The Sweated Pickers (they Earn Something Under Sixpence An Hour) Why They Did Not Form A Union. I Was Told Immediately That 'they' Would Never Allow It. Who Were 'they'? I Asked. Nobody Seemed To Know, But Evidently 'they' Were Omnipotent.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Road To Wigan Pier”, de Orwell, George, publicado pela editora Createspace, em 2015 e com 158 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Createspace
Páginas: 158
Ano: 2015
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1508407444
ISBN13: 9781508407447
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