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George Orwell Politics And Language

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George Orwell 's political essay “politics and language,” is about literary rules that are criticized. Orwell believed that these rules should not be broken. The author wrote this essay to show others his perspective of politics and to explain how the rules form today are different. Orwell use of Propaganda and Phraseology helps us infer that he is writing this to his fans , other writers, and everyone in general. This essay is written in a first person point of view. You can tell because he is writing about his thoughts and ideas and what he thinks. Furthermore,Orwell doesn 't use any literary devices is this particular essay. Although, he does use many pathos. Ultimately, The tone in politics and language is denunciatory since the
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Along with this, Orwell openly portrays his anger revolving around the destruction of the English Language. In prior writings, Orwell displays his disgust at the evolution of language and his unhappiness in the migration of shorter, unexaggerated sentences to the lengthy wording of simple phrases. In Orwell's writing titled “Politics and the English Language,” he states “no modern writer of the kind I am discussing- no one capable of using phrases like “objective consideration of contemporary phenomena”- would ever tabulate his thoughts in that precise and detailed way,” a passage which thoroughly depicts Orwells contempt of modern writers. By incorporating Old English language into his writings, Orwell subtly displays his unrest with the modernization of our language.

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