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Against this tide, Morris stood alone with full assurance, with conscious confidence in life. The rock he stood upon was his socialist convictions. A Charge of Immorality 39 Morris's confidence in the socialist future was to prove to be contagious and the strength of his convictions unbridled. Morris himself was first and last an artist. He believed that the fulfilled man, socialist man, was also an artist, and that man's basic instinct was creative and not political. Morris decided to become a socialist because the people he saw about him were stunted and incomplete and in no way compared to his vision of the creative man.
Priestley, though, says: , I t would be wrong to create the impression that the working class of these years was altogether downtrodden, dispirited, wretched' ,29 and we have to balance this view against the evidence of documents such as Booth's Life and Labour of the People of London, Rowntree's Poverty: A Study of Town Life and the 1908 Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission. The evidence, surely, is too strong to be denied; as Samuel Hynes writes: 'the poor were more wretched and more numerous than at any other time in English history'; the rich, he goes on, were richer 'and more conspicuous in their luxuries'.
For present purposes, though, perhaps a better example, written A Charge of Immorality 49 in 1936, is a short essay entitled Shooting An Elephant. Is The essay is autobiographical and it concerns the author as a young police officer in Burma having to cope with an elephant on the rampage. Orwell's feeling of alienation (and its cause) is made plain to us from the beginning. ' Those who hated him were, of course, the native Burmese. ' But the incident with the elephant brought these vague and often blurred sentiments into clear focus, giving him 'a better glimpse ...
