Both Uses of
drudgery
in
1984 by Orwell
- From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared.†
p. 189..6 *
- The aim of the Low, when they have an aim — for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives — is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.†
p. 201..9
Definition:
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(drudgery) hard, unpleasant, and boring work