Intersection In “Down The Mine” & “Looking Back On The Spanish War”

Intersection in the Essays Name Institution Intersection in the Essays In the essays “Down the Mine” and “Looking Back on the Spanish War” George Orwell manages to create an intersection. Ideally, these two essays have created compelling ideas that resonate with the reader. One aspect of these two essays that becomes clear is that plight or troubles of the working class in regards to the dangerous work conditions they endure, and their oppression by the owners. One way the plight of the workers is examined in the essays “Down the Mine” and “Looking Back on the Spanish War” is through the dangerous work conditions they have to endure. In the “Down the Mine,” Orwell claims that workers in coal mines work in dangerous and harsh conditions. He says, “There is the heat — it varies, but in some mines it is suffocating — and the coal dust that stuffs up your throat and nostrils” (Orwell, 2003). This quote shows how the working class have to endure dangerous work conditions. Similarly, the essay “Looking Back on the Spanish War” describes the dangerous and harsh nature of soldiers at war. For example, Orwell begins by describing the inhumane living conditions with overflowing latrines and lack of basic needs for any ordinary person. This makes the conditions dangerous and unsafe for the soldier because they are exposed to diseases and lack of healthy living conditions. Orwell indicates that “for instance, the boredom and animal hunger of trench life, the squalid intrigues over scraps of food, the mean, nagging quarrels which people exhausted by lack of sleep indulge in” as some of the challenges the soldiers had to endure (Kay, 2006). In this case, these two essays show that the workers including soldiers had to face dangerous working conditions because they had no cho...