George Orwell’s Why I Write Flashcards
1
Q
Sheer egoism
A
desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back at the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood
2
Q
aesthetic enthusiasm
A
perception of beauty in the external world, or on the other hand in words and their right are arrangement
3
Q
historical impulse
A
desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity
4
Q
political purpose
A
desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter others ideas of the kind of society they should strive after