Orwell's Essay by Zainelle Soto

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zjs28 — 2025-02-24 03:47:42 UTC

Politics and the English Lenguage

zjs28 — 2025-02-24 03:50:44 UTC

Orwell's underlying argument is that the English language is deteriorating due to the inclusion of phrases and meaningless words. He highlights writers’ lack of precision and the staleness of their imagery. His other argument is that because of the deterioration of the English lenguage, political writing becomes a bad thing.

zjs28 — 2025-02-24 03:55:10 UTC

Orwell multiple times says that English is deteriorating because of the inclusion of phrases, words, metaphors, and verbal false limbs. And this leads to writers in his era to have alack of precision and staleness of imagery.

zjs28 — 2025-02-24 03:59:18 UTC

It can be said that political writing is bad writing leading to bad thinking as Orwell said in his essay. It leads to a lifeless and imitative lifestyle. He believes that we should fall under the the guise of the government and that we should have our thoughts.

zjs28 — 2025-02-24 15:54:18 UTC

Evidence:"The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits that are spread by imitation and can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble." (page 1)

zjs28 — 2025-02-24 15:54:34 UTC

Evidence: "In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where is it not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions and not a "party line"." (page 7)