Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell Analysis

George believed that writing wasn’t an art but was rather more a part of trying to get his point across to his readers, in his own words as “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.” Because he was a critic and writer he did this in a lot of his writings like the ones I have mentioned earlier ‘Animal Farm” and “Shooting An Elephant. It was also known to him that good writing came from hard work and relentless efforts to combine the words together to truly make something worth reading. “To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. …show more content…
Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.” This quote showed exactly how hard he thought it was to write a great or even good piece of literature. Apparent to him was that people with a higher status of fame and popularity could also get away with things that were not at all acceptable if a civilian did it but when someone with a higher status did something like murder it wasn't frowned upon as much just because of who they are and that's what George thought was wrong and wanted to stop it. “In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of irresponsibility, just as a pregnant woman is. Still, no one would say that a pregnant woman should be allowed to commit murder, nor would anyone make such a claim for the artist, however