Question

Read the passage.

excerpt from "Why I Write" by George Orwell

It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how they must fluctuate from person to person and from time to time. By nature—taking your "nature" to be the state you have attained when you are first adult—I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth. In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties. As it is I have been forced into becoming a sort of pamphleteer. First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma), and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish civil war, etc.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

In this excerpt, Orwell suggests that the works a writer creates are directly connected to how that writer experiences the world of his or her present.

Which textual evidence supports this analysis?

Select each correct answer.

"…but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish civil war, etc."

"In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties."

"It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how they must fluctuate from person to person and from time to time."

"By nature—taking your 'nature' to be the state you have attained when you are first adult—I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth."

Answer 1

"In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties."

This sentence shows that Orwell believes the type of writing an author is doing directly relates to the things going on around him in the world. He says that if things were peaceful in the world he might not have written about politics, but they were not peaceful so he did write politically. 

Answer 2

‘Why I Write’ is an essay by George Orwell, published in 1946 after the publication of his novella Animal Farm.

He wrote his final novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The essay is an insightful piece of memoir about Orwell’s early years and how he developed as a writer.

The textual evidence supporting the analysis is "In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties."

Who is George Orwell?

Eric Arthur Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.

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