This essay observes that performing the title action involves a constant struggle to "efface one's own personality," just before declaring that "Good prose is like a windowpane.
This essay notes that at the age of thirty, "the great mass of human beings… almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all." This essay quotes its author's poem lamenting that "I wasn't born for an age like this; / Was Smith? Was Jones? Were you?" This essay observes that performing the title action involves a constant struggle to "efface one's own personality," just before declaring that "Good prose is like a windowpane." The author of this essay notes that he does not sit down and declare ‘I am going to produce a (*) work of art' when is about to perform the title action, but rather because "there is some lie I want to expose," and lists "sheer egoism," "aesthetic enthusiasm," "historical impulse" and "political purpose" as his four great motives for performing it. Its author defends his inclusion of a long chapter defending Trotskyists falsely accused of collaborating with Franco in his book Homage to Catalonia. For 10 points, name this essay in which George Orwell lays out the reasons he performs his craft.
This essay notes that at the age of thirty, "the great mass of human beings… almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all.
“Why I Write”