George Orwell: Lottery a Reason to Live

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George Orwell Money Quote saying for all those without any vestiges of hope in their life, the dream of riches won’t die because there’s always the lottery. George Orwell said:
 
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“It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory” — George Orwell

 

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George Orwell is describing how the lottery serves as a kind of opiate or distraction for millions of “proles” in his dystopian novel 1984. While they live in poverty with little opportunity, the lottery gives them hope of changing their circumstances and a reason to go on living. Even those with little education derive immense intellectual stimulation from calculating odds and remembering past lottery numbers in the hopes of winning.

So Orwell suggests that the lottery, while perhaps not the healthiest motivation, provides crucial psychological sustenance and mental occupation for the downtrodden masses in this bleak totalitarian society that otherwise offers them little joy or prospect of improving their station in life.

Birthday: June 25, 1903 – Death: January 25, 1950

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