Orwell’s four motives for writing, Sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, political purpose, “Sheer egoism”, Desire to seem clever, be talked about, remembered after death, “Aesthetic enthusiasm”, Pleasure in the impact and beauty of words and rhythm, “Historical impulse”, Desire to record things as they are for the sake of posterity, “Political purpose”, Desire to push the world in a certain direction or change people’s ideas, His goal as a writer, To make political writing into an art, “Good prose is like a windowpane.”, Clarity and transparency in writing, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”, Critique of propaganda and manipulation, “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism.”, Orwell’s lifelong moral and political stance, “I write because there is some lie that I want to expose.”, Writing as moral resistance, What “purple passage” means, A section of elaborate, ornate, or emotionally charged writing, Example of “aesthetic enthusiasm”, His love for well-balanced sentences and vivid imagery, Example of “political purpose”, His later works like Animal Farm and 1984, What Orwell sees as the writer’s duty, To tell the truth and expose deceit.

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