The Politics and English language By George Orwell

The Politics and English language

By George Orwell

Orwell had written that the writers of modern prose tend not to write in definite terms but use a certain style instead ,also he compares and contrasts an original biblical text with a comedy element "modern English" to show what he’s intentions where. All Writers find it is easier to put long strings of words together than to pick words for their meaning. This is mainly the same case within political writing, when Orwell had noted that seems to demand an “imitative style" Political speech and writing are generally in defence of the indefensible and so lead to a euphemistic inflated style. Thought corrupts language, and language can corrupt thought. Orwell suggests six elementary rules that if followed will prevent the type of faults he illustrates although "one could keep all of them and still write bad English".

 

George Orwell goes on to then makes it clear that he has not been considering the literary use of language; He also acknowledges his own shortcomings and states "Look back through this essay and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against".