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“Politics and the English Language”
In 1946 a great article was written by the famous writer George Orwell who was known for writing the book 1984. In order to inspire and promote persuasion in his essay, Orwell uses diction that grabs the reader's attention. Firstly he creates a series of numbered paragraphs in which he calls “below average mental vices” were he tries to show lack of precision and and “stateless” imagery.
How he tries to fix things
After Orwell shows how the works of “prose-construction” is completely irrelevant and downgrading, he tries to help these people by giving them grammatical tips to help them out. Two things he mentions are the Dying Metaphors and the Operators or “verbal false limbs”, …show more content…
This section for many readers can be seen as the summary and the bases of what Orwell stands for. Throughout his essay Orwell talks about how to setup writings and what a person should concentrate on when writing a certain text. Most of what is seen in modern articles and writings today is meaningless words and phrases which was one of the many reasons why Orwell’s essay provides a great “personal diary” to have whenever someone is writing a piece of literature. Going back to the main point, in his paragraph for MEANINGLESS WORDS, Orwell uses logos to try and persuade the readers of where the majority of their mistakes comes from and even gives viable examples that makes a person have that “Oh Yeah!” moment. Orwell continous his paragraph and stresses how these meaningless words are often used in politics and if used in a wrong way, they can be viewed as improper and “dishonest” (where authors allow their readers to think they mean something quite different than what is written). As seen in the essay, examples of that would be words statements or sentences like The Catholic Church is opposed to persecution, The Soviet Press is freest in the world, Marshal Petain was a true patriot …show more content…
He also gives his views of what the use of language is to him and says that he is not “been considering the literary use of [it], but merely [viewing it] as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.” Also, he stresses the most important aspect of it all by reminding the readers of what is happening in our modern world today through political parties and how Conservative to Anarchists “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give solidity to pure wind.”And finally, as a closing statement he tells his fellow readers that “one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase...or other of verbal refuse- into the dustbin where it
“Politics and the English Language”
In 1946 a great article was written by the famous writer George Orwell who was known for writing the book 1984. In order to inspire and promote persuasion in his essay, Orwell uses diction that grabs the reader's attention. Firstly he creates a series of numbered paragraphs in which he calls “below average mental vices” were he tries to show lack of precision and and “stateless” imagery.
How he tries to fix things
After Orwell shows how the works of “prose-construction” is completely irrelevant and downgrading, he tries to help these people by giving them grammatical tips to help them out. Two things he mentions are the Dying Metaphors and the Operators or “verbal false limbs”, …show more content…
This section for many readers can be seen as the summary and the bases of what Orwell stands for. Throughout his essay Orwell talks about how to setup writings and what a person should concentrate on when writing a certain text. Most of what is seen in modern articles and writings today is meaningless words and phrases which was one of the many reasons why Orwell’s essay provides a great “personal diary” to have whenever someone is writing a piece of literature. Going back to the main point, in his paragraph for MEANINGLESS WORDS, Orwell uses logos to try and persuade the readers of where the majority of their mistakes comes from and even gives viable examples that makes a person have that “Oh Yeah!” moment. Orwell continous his paragraph and stresses how these meaningless words are often used in politics and if used in a wrong way, they can be viewed as improper and “dishonest” (where authors allow their readers to think they mean something quite different than what is written). As seen in the essay, examples of that would be words statements or sentences like The Catholic Church is opposed to persecution, The Soviet Press is freest in the world, Marshal Petain was a true patriot …show more content…
He also gives his views of what the use of language is to him and says that he is not “been considering the literary use of [it], but merely [viewing it] as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.” Also, he stresses the most important aspect of it all by reminding the readers of what is happening in our modern world today through political parties and how Conservative to Anarchists “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give solidity to pure wind.”And finally, as a closing statement he tells his fellow readers that “one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase...or other of verbal refuse- into the dustbin where it