Read the passage.

excerpt from "Why I Write" by George Orwell

What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, "I am going to produce a work of art." I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience. Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

In this excerpt, Orwell asserts that while writing is fundamentally a political act, it should also be creative, beautiful, and moving.

Which textual evidence supports this analysis?

Select each correct answer.


"I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."


"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."


"But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience."


"So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information."