Huxley vs Orwell: Dystonia Truth in Post-truth era
I was reading Matthew Arnold
few days ago to teach in S.Y.B.A... In the -History of English Literature, it
was written about Arnold that "HE IS A TRUE REFLECTION OF A VERY REAL MOOD
OF THE PAST CENTURY, THE MOOD OF DOUBT AND SORROW" & A FUTURE
GENERATIONS MAY GIVE HIM A HIGHER PLACE THAN HE HOLDS NOW AS A POET".
He was raised into strict religious environment. & in college he was thrown into a world of doubt & questioning. So there was constant struggle in his heart to accept the faith of his father’s but in his head demanding proof and scientific exactness. So the same struggle between head and heart, between reason and intuition, between doubt and faith goes on in his poetry.
My point is that Matthew Arnold's reader will increased in every upcoming generation where this kind of struggle between head and heart, faith & doubt will found. The same idea can be apply to the novels of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell also. They had written something in advance, which is happening in present century. So the 21st century readers can understand them in better way then did their contemporary readers. To make my statement clear just repeating the line what I just wrote above ...."A FUTURE GENERATION MAY GIVE HIM A HIGHER PLACE THAN HE HOLDS NOW...."
This is what I think the reason behind the growth in reading of the mentioned novels.
He was raised into strict religious environment. & in college he was thrown into a world of doubt & questioning. So there was constant struggle in his heart to accept the faith of his father’s but in his head demanding proof and scientific exactness. So the same struggle between head and heart, between reason and intuition, between doubt and faith goes on in his poetry.
My point is that Matthew Arnold's reader will increased in every upcoming generation where this kind of struggle between head and heart, faith & doubt will found. The same idea can be apply to the novels of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell also. They had written something in advance, which is happening in present century. So the 21st century readers can understand them in better way then did their contemporary readers. To make my statement clear just repeating the line what I just wrote above ...."A FUTURE GENERATION MAY GIVE HIM A HIGHER PLACE THAN HE HOLDS NOW...."
This is what I think the reason behind the growth in reading of the mentioned novels.
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