The narrator gives the reader no clue as to who is saying which thing or who the instigator of the conversation is.
The correct answer is C. Orwell provides a hypothetical situation with someone using unclear language.
Explanation:
The excerpt presented belongs to an essay titled "Politics and the English language" by the writer George Orwell, in this, the author explains in politics it is common to use vague language, euphemisms or similar tot defend actions and regimes that might seem indefensible such as the atom bombs in Japan or the British rule in India, for proving this, Orwell mainly provides a hypothetical example and situation in which a professor defends Russain totalitarianism by using unclear language and words that mask the brutality, for example, the professor would say "While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore" to describe the killings in this regime.
