The surveillance employed by the State is intrusive and assertive; it holds power over the citizens, making the state authoritarian, which Auden would certainly be opposed to given that he was quite anti-Authority.
Society did not declare Nivison as “brilliant” during her time. Should she subsequently receive recognition for her art, the work must stand on its own aesthetic merit.
In the present world, a transracial adoptee’s experience is inevitably complex, as they break both the genetic continuity and the racial continuity in our definitions of family.
In many cases, people are seen only as laborers, not as people. They aren’t treated with respect or dignity. And yet employees are expected to devote their lives to their jobs.