George Orwell: Essays Literary Elements

George Orwell: Essays Literary Elements

Genre

Essays

Setting and Context

Written in the context of political ethos

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Educative, reflective, and buoyant

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonists are professors Lancelot and Harold.

Major Conflict

The climax is in the essay 'The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,' where the author concludes that the hindrance to victory in war is the class system.

Climax

N/A

Foreshadowing

The entertainment of British Imperialism foreshadows the moral fallacy exercised in the contemporary world.

Understatement

The negative impact of British imperialism is understated.

Allusions

The essays allude to the factors leading to the stagnation of political ethos.

Imagery

The imagery of Gandhi's ideology is predominant in 'Reflections on Gandhi', which shows how nationalism is achieved without using violence.

Paradox

The British Imperialism is project is beneficial to the local population, but on the contrary, it does the opposite.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between moral fallacy and political ethos.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Imperialism is used as a metonymy for control.

Personification

N/A

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