{"id":13817,"date":"2025-06-08T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:03:19","slug":"cancelling-winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/08\/cancelling-winston\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling Winston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Orwell estate accused of censorship after putting trigger warning at start of Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By JADA BAS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c7jb1Lptjgw\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

George Orwell’s estate has been accused of censorship after a ‘trigger warning’ was added to his classic novel Nineteen Eighty Four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preface of the the 75th anniversary edition suggests Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith is ‘problematic’ and that readers may find his views on women ‘despicable’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The introductory essay was written by US novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez and critics claim it risks undermining the revolutionary novel’s warning against state control of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orwell’s dystopian hyperbolic future is set under an authoritarian regime, where citizens are punished by the ‘Thought Police’ for subversive thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It follows Winston Smith and a minor bureaucrat who secretly rebels against the regime with Julia, a fellow party member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at TDM<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Daily Mail George Orwell estate accused of censorship after putting trigger warning at start of Nineteen Eighty-Four By JADA BAS George Orwell’s estate has been accused of censorship after a ‘trigger warning’ was added to his classic novel Nineteen Eighty Four. The preface of the the 75th anniversary edition suggests Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}