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A 5 page research paper that examines George Orwell's 1946 essay Politics and the English Language. In this essay, Orwell offers a detailed warning about the dangers of imprecise, overly convoluted writing, while also detailing what constitutes good writing. The writer relates Orwell's political ideals to his concept of the ideal writer. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Similarly, in his 1946 essay Politics and the English Language, Orwell offers a detailed warning about the dangers of imprecise, overly convoluted writing, while also detailing what constitutes good
writing. While this essay is basically a "how-to" manual on writing, it is a highly unusual one as its basic theme is the "use of ready-made phrases as instruments of
mind control" (Kogan 16). In this essay, Orwell observes that modern political speech is full of "vague, imposing words and monstrous abstractions," which are intentionally designed to divert the attention
of the reader away from the truth of a given situation (Kogan 16). In laying out his requirements for good use of language, Orwell offers the reader, through implication, his
own political ideals, which supported freedom and upheld the human rights of all people. Throughout his essay, Orwell draws on examples of bad writing that he gleaned from actual
sources. For example, he offers an excerpt of a statement written by "some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism" (Orwell). The English professor writes, "While freely conceding that the Soviet
regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable
concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers the following translation: "I believe in killing off your
opponents when you can get good results by doing so" (Orwell). Of course, to voice such an opinion in simple, direct English shows the opinions of the English professor for
what they are -- i.e. barbaric -- therefore, Orwell points out that such sentiments are frequently hidden by an inflated style of writing that acts as a "kind of euphemism"
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