He had, let us remember, resigned his job as a police officer serving in Burma, thus announcing his rejection of the very notion of docility on which he was brought up in Eton. “I write”, he says in his much-quoted essays, “Why I Write”, “because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention” (p. Certainly, Orwell’s outspoken criticism of the British colonial establishment in Burmese Days (1934) or in essays like “Shooting an Elephant”, or a “Hanging” is, at any rate, an act of intellectual courage and reflects a progressive political vision.
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However, the one conspicuous paradox that Williams fails to identify here involves Orwell’s ambivalent position vis-à-vis the colonial subject whether in the Far East or Africa. After all, his was a generation of warring ideologies: Socialism, Capitalism, Nazism, Fascism, and various forms of linguistic, ethnic and religious nationalisms. 286).Ĭonsidering his relatively short, hectic life and the rapidly shifting, if also profoundly disheartening political and militarily realities of his time, these paradoxes in Orwell might in the end become justifiable, imputed perhaps to an enduring sense of scepticism of any sustained political attitude.
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He was a believer in equality, and a critic of class who founded his later work on a deep assumption of inherent inequality, inescapable class difference (p. He was a socialist, who popularized a severe and damaging criticism of the idea of socialism and of its adherents. But there are other, more particular, paradoxes. These, perhaps, are elements of the general paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror a man committed to decency who actualized a distinctive squalor. The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of a paradox. Tell it slant: Creating, refining, and publishing creative nonfiction.In the last chapter of Culture and Society (1958), devoted to the work of the celebrated English novelist and essayist George Orwell, Raymond Williams wrote: If you’re still a little confused, that’s okay! Here are some more links on creative nonfiction that might help you.