They design a blueprint for us all, hidden in their writings by taking the forms of what we see. So, to me, a warrior and idealist fighting for the interest and meaning of all, even if with just a thin pen in an ironic tone, is one of the most optimistic considering the human nature, since he or she determines and believes strongly that human beings should not live with such miseries and desperations accompanied by inequality and suppression.
They are that group of people who have fortunately been enlightened by the very human’s conscience, and therefore later become the warriors to defend their idealism of Utopia which may be a destination never to get to, but the journey to it still has incomparable significance. Therefore, asked about what George Orwell or Mark Twain were trading for with their uneconomic writing career, I would be assertive that these great minds just felt obligatory to answer the call of time upon them. Rhetorical devices or English writing skills can be attained by mechanic practice and training, while the soul of a great works can never be acquired by affectation or utilitarianism. I can, also, picture how George Orwell is trying to constrain all his indignation and agony in order to finish the not too long Marrakech. All the claims and oaths taken by a president or a party cadre can be outshined by what George Orwell conveys in his imaginary nation in 1984, through which I can almost picture the author dwelling upon all the miseries and pains he sees in the suppressed and takes all of the misfortunes as what he himself has gone through. These masterminds of literature to people like me can be seen as the very representation of altruism, living a sometimes destitute life, taking the risk of been ranked as the menial class, but still daring all they have to tell the truth, the ugliness they witness and the bitterness they experience and feel sympathetic about. Their integrity will induce more irrational hostility than consoling consonance. They cannot always be patronized and appreciated by aristocratic members as Voltaire had been. To decide such a seemly ambiguous question, one should first have a definite assumption about what these authors are trading for with their underlying audacious integrity and breathless condemnation. People may argue about whether, such great pens as Mark Twain, George Orwell, Lu Hsun, and Kurt Vonnegut, with their ingenious incisiveness of human reality borne out by their acid humor and even insightful cynicism, hold an optimistic attitude towards humans or the opposite way. Had there been used to be a Babel Tower, then the interest-and-selfishness-free conversation and ultimate equality between individuals could have been more than a fantasy. Colonialism, together with numerous other words ending with “-ism”, for instance, authoritarianism, fundamentalism, Capitalism, Protectionism, McCarthyism, and egoism, can been regarded as just a tip of the iceberg of the complications and divergences of human beings. People’s sympathy and benevolence seem to have an innate tendency to lose effect under the counteractions of Seven Sins in the bible, indeed one or two of which can result into catastrophic man-made atrocities. Marrakech shows exactly what George Orwell sees as the kernel of truth in colonized places, where he himself had been appointed as one of the local administers for certain periods, and also that of human nature fitting into the selfish rationality acclaimed by Social Darwinism under certain circumstances. Foreword: Again this is a piece of undergrad writing I am proud of.