Analysis Of Why I Write By George Orwell

In Why I Write, by George Orwell, actual elements of Orwell’s personal life are explained with respect to the development of his writing career. Unlike Shooting an Elephant, which could easily be a representation of Orwell’s real Burmese experiences in 1936, Why I Write is explicitly about his writing career, and it is justified to claim that Orwell is the speaker. In the early stages of his writing, Orwell emphasizes that he wrote for everyone but himself; the styles and techniques that he chose for his short stories and poems were tailored to an audience who loved flowery, thrilling writing. Orwell uses the Latin term vers d’occasion, meaning “written for a special occasion.” Writing was not for personal fulfillment, or even pleasure. In

Focusing on the fleeting concept of writer’s motivation, Orwell challenges readers to find the same drive while reading this work, so they can apply it when they read other pieces. Orwell wants his audience to practice the motivation to read, in order for his audience to do justice to authors by digging deep enough in written works to find the message that was so politically, demonically driven. The purpose of this piece was to inform an audience of readers about the struggles of a writer. Since writers and writing are the subjects of the paper, Orwell would not likely be addressing this community because it is probably a struggle they already know. Orwell goes to great depth trying to explain his own writing journey and the general realizations he has gleaned from them, and in doing so, he speaks to an audience of readers who enjoy reading material that has this same depth. Orwell know’s that an author’s purpose is important to his audience because of the detail he goes into, comparing the writing process and the struggle for finding motivation to differing ideas and

Orwell’s differing techniques in one work illuminates what he is talking about in the other. The political purpose that is explained in Why I Write reveals aspects of Shooting an Elephant that were previously overlooked. Quite explicitly, the speaker in Shooting an Elephant vocalizes the dissent he feels for the British empire. The political purpose in this work may have been to voice the opinion that no people should be subject to oppression. Even though the Burmese people jeered at the speaker for his European heritage, the speaker still saw beyond the prejudice to consider the underlying reason behind this foul treatment; he even went to the extent to agree with them and join in on the fight against the empire. This level of maturity that Orwell instills in his main character voices his opinion for freedom even louder than a character or storyline that outright fought against the literal British empire, or any other oppressive regime. By incorporating this political purpose so deeply within his story, Orwell preserves a writer’s integrity of creating meaningful work that voices an opinion but is still tactfully crafted. In Why I Write, George Orwell touches on these different types of writing, writing that is crafted and writing that is produced. “You’ve turned what might have been a good book into