Orwell’s Marrakech: Redux

AGrams
AGrams
Nov 7 · 5 min read
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In 1939 George Orwell wrote an essay entitled “Marrakech”. It has become a staple of English composition classes and studies in creative nonfiction. In it, he describes the streets of Marrakech from his detached, yet enlightened, perspective.

According to Orwell, the flies inherit the earth and the poor people are so filthy that white Europeans cannot distinguish them from the soil and refuse in which they live.

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Teacher, writer, actor, yogi, runner. Born and raised overseas. Based in Cairo, Egypt.

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