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George Orwell's Politics And The English Language

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In Orwell’s piece “Politics and the English language”, he makes it painstakingly clear what both subjects have been deteriorating for years and share a same culprit. He believes that a self-fulfilling prophecy has been ingrained into our mind to purposely give up and forgo any progression in language and policies. Orwell follows by describing it as a man who takes up drinking as he knows hill life will go nowhere and ends up a failure due to his alcoholism. Because he gave up before even trying, he set himself done downward spiraling path to his failure. Later on Orwell goes on to compare this toxic thought to the English language as its “staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning or cannot express
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