Reflection on Marrakech(Marrakech读后感).docVIP

Reflection on Marrakech “Marrakech”, an essay,which reveals the poverty and discrimination caused by the colonialism in Marrakech. George provides us with some simple, yet impressive pictures of local life in later part. For instance, the living conditions in Jews ghetto, marginalized section of society—women, sickening maltreatment of animals, etc. We can tell by the following aspects that Marrakech is quite poor. Firstly, as the essay opens, the author takes us through the stench of a corpse that attracted the cloud of flies from the restaurant. Not only is a dead body carried openly through the streets, but the flies, enjoying the decay. There is an implied sense of pity for those people forced to live in such conditions. Secondly, Orwell’s use of vivid description continues as he conveys the squalor of the living and working conditions in the Jewish ghetto. Orwell describes the Jewish ghetto, highlighting the disgusting conditions the Jews are forced to live under. And then he goes on to vividly describe another marginalized section of society – its women. Orwell presents a vivid physical description of the women of Marrakech, showing us the heavy toll that their mistreatment has taken on their bodies. Furthermore, the author describes the menial tasks they are expected to perform, despite their lack of health and strength. He writes about a meeting with a group of women collecting wood. Orwell exploits particularly vivid and emotive language here in phrases such as, “poor old”, “reduced to bones”, “bent double”, and “crushing weight”. This creates pity and sympathy for the women. It is not only the Jews and the women who are mistreated, and Orwell also uses vivid language to describe the sickening mistreatment of animals. As far as I am concerned, one country would be destined to suffer from poverty and backwardness if it had surrendered to another. And its people become one of the colonial countries’ possessions, along with the land and buildings, and they los