“He was human,” they sniff, as they dutifully report his workingman affectations, like sipping tea or coffee from a dish rather than a cup, or more damning, giving out people’s names he considered “pinkish” during the period following the Second World War. When Orwell’s life and writings exhibited human failings, and, of course sometimes they did, critics suffer a defensive reaction. He transcended a given ideology even while condemning or praising it (socialism, the best example of the latter). He identified with his subjects while striving for objectivity, leading him to be praised by writers of the political left or right.
Orwell often lived the lives of those he wrote about, be they soldiers, miners, or the down and out waiting to die in hospitals for the poor. Though each author provided examples in order to support their implication, their appeals to pathos and emphasis on pondering the abstract ideas in writing further attracted their audience.Orwell wrote the way an average person would write if they could, and he didn’t “talk down to anyone.” As Louis Menand said: “Orwell had the rare talent for making readers feel that they were dealing not with a reporter or a columnist or a literary man – not with a writer – but with an ordinary person.” It should be added he accomplished this while studding his essays with erudition that never comes across as gratuitous.
George Orwell and Joan didion, in their why I write, employ the rhetorical strategy of explanation in order effectively attend to their audience. Through the use of explanation, Joan didion was able to effectively deliver her message to the attending audience. Didion additionally conveys her attitude towards these distractions, often wondering why such events occur.Īs a result, Joan often ponders upon the abstract ideas in order to enhance her writing. The author reflects upon this idea, by providing an example of how her attention diverted simply to a “flowering pear outside her window” or the “lights on in the Bevatron” while writing at Berkley. The author focuses on a particular issue, in which Didion became distracted while writing. Similar to Orwell, Joan experienced several obstacles that impeded her writing. In addition, Joan elaborates on this idea of self-reflection, explaining how writing allowed her to create a mind of abstract ideas.
Joan introduces her essay with the topic of self-reflection, by illustrating the act of saying I. Joan didion, in the essay “Why I write,” utilizes the rhetorical strategy of explanation to appeal to her audience. Through explanation, George Orwell was able to effectively deliver his message to the attending audience. The author eventually provides an example for these motives, by appealing to the pathos in his Spanish-civil war poem, often concentrating on emotion and expressing remorse.
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