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Explanation of the speaker in "I Want a Wife": The speaker in I want a wife is a woman who is a wife and mother herself. When she says that she wants a wife, she is not referring to another woman or saying that she is a homosexual. She means that she would like to have someone who did all of the work around her house, and other similar jobs, for her. She’s making a statement about married women, who are expected to do much more work than their husbands. She wants to call attention to the unfair treatment of women, which reminds the reader of the cult of domesticity.

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Explain the intended audience for the novel 1984:

Orwell intended the audience of his novel, __1984__, to be a post World War II western world. He had seen the evils of totalitarian governments for himself and he was fearful that Democratic countries in the West could easily make the transition from freedom to oppression. The connection between fictional Oceania and totalitarian states in the real world is clear. Orwell wanted to warn the citizens of the world to be careful not to let their governments become too powerful. He wanted his readers to see what the world could easily become if they weren’t careful.

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