Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Footnote on Orwell


*1984* assumed human perfection? what?  Carrol, can you please explain this?



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On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Carrol Cox wrote:

>     William Empson (who was personally acquainted with Orwell) claimed that
> Orwell's primary target in *1984* was neither Stalin nor Hitler but
> Christianity. I have no opinion: the novel bored me. It was just another
> of those tracts that assume human perfection (in this cased perfection
> in "evil").
>     Carrol
> 
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