In that warning, they point out Orwell’s work and, in addition, other books that can also be “offensive and annoying”, such as “Endgame” from Samuel Beckett or graphic novel “V for Vendetta” from Alan Moore.
“We are aware that some texts can be challenging for some students and we have taken this into account when developing our courses,” the university said in a brief statement.
Orwell’s work, published in 1949, addresses the essence of the totalitarian state, which persecutes individual thought, manipulates information and represses its citizens and inaugurated concepts such as “Big Brother”, “Thought Police” and “Newspeak”.
The university’s decision generated some controversy in Great Britain and was a new instance of the debates about the cancellation in different areas of culture and education. parliamentarian Andrew Bridgen commented on the move in the Mail Online newspaper: “There is a certain irony that students today are getting warnings before they read 1984. Our university campuses are fast becoming dystopian Big Brother zones where Newspeak is practiced to lower the range of intellectual thought and cancel out speakers who don’t fit it,” he said.
For its part, David Taylor, biographer of George Orwell, argued that “while teenagers may find some of the novel’s scenes disturbing, no one of college age can be surprised by the book.”
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