Considering the political push behind his prose style, the thesis also engages in the critical conversation surrounding the truthfulness of Orwell’s observational reportages. Through simplifying words and syntax while also being highly sentient to readers’ developing responses, Orwell constructs engaging and perplexing textual effects that, while deriving aesthetic pleasure on their own, also induce the reader toward agreeing with him politically. Through engaging with his own meta-commentary on language, scholarly arguments, and close readings of his texts across genres, the thesis identifies central stylistic characteristics of his plain prose style and explains how they function politically within his texts. It studies how textual effects of his prose style connect with his political agenda. This master’s thesis aims to explain how to read George Orwell as a writer and prose stylist who strived to make political writing into an art.
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