How George Orwell overcame his 'Scotophobia' will be the focus of a new book. The author lived in Scotland for a period while writing his masterpiece 1984 on the Hebridean island of Jura ✍️
– Wilson uses extensive research into Orwell’s writings and those of his contemporaries, as well as interviews with people living on Jura, to explore the evolution of and reasons behind the great writer’s aversion to all things Scottish.There were, Wilson concludes, “three elements to his anti-Scottishness”.was Orwell's distaste for his own background. The writer was descended from slave-owning aristocracy with the name Blair – which is derived from the Scots Gaelic blàr, meaning field.
“His first encounter with Scots were these little Scottish snobs at a prep school who talked about going fishing in the Highlands on mummy and daddy’s estate,” Wilson says, arguing that Orwell had further rebelled against a “cult of Scottishness” imposed by the schoolmasters., and perhaps strongest, element to the great writer’s Scotophobia was his experience in Burma., which basically fueled the British fleet, was headquartered in Glasgow.
Described as “an old Scotch gin-soaker”, the character tells another: “Remember laddie, always remember, we are sahib-log [masters] and they are dirrt!”replete with quotes and evidence of the ScotophobiaOne, from a former partner, goes: “He had his own prejudices. Fearful prejudices. For example, he claimed that all Scots people were like the-swilling planters he’d met in Burma. Fearful prejudices, and he wouldn’t take any argument about them.
In 1947, the great writer penned an article for the Tribune where he declared to have formerly thought it “absurd to keep alive an archaic language like Gaelic” – but noted the reasons for his change of heart.A friend would later say that support for the survival of Britain's minority languages was one of the last opinions Orwell ever expressed before his death in 1950 aged just 46.
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