George Orwell’s Why I Write

Question 1

Sheer egoism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

aesthetic enthusiasm

Answer 2

perception of beauty in the external world, or on the other hand in words and their right are arrangement

Question 3

historical impulse

Answer 3

desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity

Question 4

political purpose

Answer 4

desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter others ideas of the kind of society they should strive after