Politics and the English Language: An Essay - George Orwell
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“The emotional urges which are inescapable, and are perhaps even necessary to political action, should be able to exist side by side with an acceptance of reality.”
“Politics and the English Language” is widely considered one of Orwell’s most important essays.
Within this essay, Orwell criticises the “ugly and inaccurate” written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology.
Written as it was just after World War II, “Politics and the English Language” provides a stark warning of how important language is to our everyday live
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
April 4th, 2021
I remember when I first read this essay I thought Orwell was being overly pessimistic about how easily an educated electorate would accept lies if only they were presented in a sufficiently incoherent package.
Of course, that was before Ronald Reagan.
April 4th, 2021
Er, Margaret Thatcher? 1979? Conveniently missed one, again. There’ll Always be an England…
April 5th, 2021
I think this is also the one that contains his rules for writing, which are still the best I’ve ever seen.
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