Read the short passage. excerpt from "Why I Write" by George Orwell

The Spanish war and other events in 1936–37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. 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. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

In this excerpt, Orwell asserts that writing is, and always will be, a political act.

Which textual evidence supports this analysis?

Select each correct answer.

"The Spanish war and other events in 1936–37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood."

"Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows."

"But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience."

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it."