However, I think that one can understand the trajectory of Orwell’s literary canon when one considers the problem of language that Orwell continued to struggle with throughout his entire career. Furthermore, most of his works, both fiction and non-fiction, are for the most part self-consciously political. While Orwell had made claim in his essay Why I Write published in 1946 that “what I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art” (Why I Write), he negates the writer’s political responsibility in Inside the Whale, which was published six year earlier.
During our class discussion about the historical and political context of Orwell’s essay Inside the Whale, we also discussed the inconsistencies in Orwell’s works.
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