While reading, apart from sorting out the specific problems, I couldn’t help thinking of myself. The first thing that arrests my eyes is the italics(斜体字)that exemplifies the pretentious English language. Which is “corrupted” for Orwell is ironically “smart words” for me. That propels...
George Orwell is famous for books like1984andAnimal Farm.His essay,Politics and the English Language, published in 1946, has six rules that anyone can use to improve their writing. 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Orwell ...
Recently I readNineteen Eighty- Four, a novel by George Orwell set in a state where even the language people use is controlled. Adjectives are forbidden and instead they use phrases such as “ungood”, “plus good” and “double-plus good” to express emotions. As I first read this, I ...
In 1946, George Orwell published one of his best known essays, Politics and the English Language. In it, he takes aim at the sloppy use of language and the damaging effects this has on thinking. He decries the use of unnecessarily long, foreign or meaningless words, hackneyed metaphors and...
Anyhow, Orwell then moves on to death. He suggests that the lonely, ignored death of patientnuméro 57, would be seen as “an example of a ‘natural’ death, one of the things you pray for in the Litany”. He considers it might be “better to die violently and not too old”, becau...
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Although the Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as "lower-upper-middle class" . They owned no property, had no extensive investments; they were like many middle-class English families of the time, totally dependent on the British Empire for their ...
I'm heating things up a little in T-Town. They call me 'The Seeker' George Orwell: "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” This is the end
Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals’ minds at rest. He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. It was pure imagina- tion, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snow...
So then does that mean we all have to become “political writers,” like George Orwell or write overtly allegorical fiction like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in an effort to school our readers on some political, social, economic, or religious stance? No. Of course not. But I maintain that no matte...