George Orwell's The Politics And The English Language

George Orwell’s essay, the Politics and the English Language, portrays inaccuracies associated with writing. He explores examples of poorly written sentences. He appeals, “Language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought” (Orwell). The main points of his essay consist of writing clearly and honestly in order to accurately represent what the writer is intending their audience to understand. Orwell focuses on the reasoning for the decline of the language due to political and economic reasons. This reaffirms the necessity to simplifying language as opposed to complicating it in an effort to appear intellectual, respectable, or powerful. Outdated metaphors, extra or pretentious words added for the sake

As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house” (Orwell). The especially dislike when the act of expressing our thoughts is mitigated by political correctness. The act of disguising our language in order to move ahead or appear something you are not is not moral. I observe this with politics today and its intent to control those around them more than it is for being polite. The candidates do not appear to be original in their stance; rather manipulation is the foundation of their candidacy in order to appear the better

There are also Hillary Clinton’s “Everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion” (Schwarz). Candidates use these as a quick position statement for their campaign. However, upon inspection, what exactly are they mean? There is an intentionally intent of being vague enough to meet the supposed needs. They are pursuing the majority of votes for the ultimate win. As indicated in Trump’s recycled slogan, perhaps there was not enough ingenuity of coming up with something original. What champion is Clinton pursuing? I feel the single purpose of the slogan is that it is small enough to fits on a bumper sticker, however, does not have a clear message. Otherwise, it does not explain the issues they stand for.

Last year we had seen slogans indicating Black Lives Matter. Regardless of race, all life matters. The placement of an extra adjective limiting whose lives matter implies others’ lives to not matter. This is an example of an adjective that was “tacked on to some general purpose verb” (Orwell). There are additional examples of unclear language used