George Orwell's Animal Farm

As someone who has read "Animal Farm", I knew Orwell's advancing explanation as to why he writes. Napoleon and the dogs were the largest giveaways to their real-world parallels. As a writer myself, though, the title caused me to ponder why I write. Upon completing the prose, I reread the section where Orwell provides us with a brief description of common reasons to write. Before this piece, I never asked myself why I wrote-- all I needed to know was that I truly enjoyed it and I have been doing it for years. Looking back to the scraps of prose I created as a child, I can describe them as pieces of aesthetic enthusiasm now. However, as I have matured, I write with a political purpose. Although I read "Animal Farm" as a required assignment in high school, the novel revealed another aspect of writing that I did not recognize until I read Orwell's creation. Novels, as described by Orwell, are excellent mediums to politically comment on a variety of subjects since the decorations attached with prose allow an author to make any idea seem appealing. The statement which speaks the loudest to me is the following: "If I had not been angry about that I should never have written the book" (Orwell 5). Pathos drives novels and without it, the audience will not receive an adequate tone; thus, becoming unable to respond in an ideal way. George …show more content…
For example, Orwell states "I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in" (2) and "The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written...against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism"