Abstract In my thesis, I examine the use of the British nursery rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons," in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in relation to the decline of the "traditional" mother figure in Oceania. George Orwell felt that if women continued to work after World War II, then the traditional family would be destroyed and children would not have the moral upbringing that only a mother could provide. In the fascist society of Oceania, good,...