Share on Facebook Orwell Thesaurus Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Or·well (ôr′wĕl′, -wəl),GeorgePen name ofEric Arthur Blair.1903-1950. British writer whose books attack totalitarianism and reflect his concern with social justice. His works include the novelsAnimal Farm(1945) and1984(...
Its desires, such as they are, are transparent, for they are just what institutional approval keeps in the forefront of consciousness; another institutional pattern would alter their number and intensity; there is little in them that is natural, irreducible, or culturally dangerous. But on the ...
3. On the one side we have the free personality: by definition it is not neurotic, for it has neither conflict nor dream. Its desires, such as they are, are transparent, for they are just what institutional approval keeps in the forefront of consciousness; another institutional pattern would...
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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”. Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide...
Essays on language and usage 1946. Web. 25 Nov. 2012.Orwell,George.Politics and the English language[M】.Guo Yanli, trans.Nanjing:Jian gsu Education Press,2006.Orwell,George.Politics and the English language[M].Guo Yanli,trans.Nanjing:Jiangsu Education Press,... LF Dean - Oxford University ...
George Orwell, in the essay Politics and the English Language, throws light on the fact of the decline of modern English and asserts that there is a special connection between politics and the debasement of language. The familiar and clear way that he writes with simple and meaningful words ...
But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified增强form, and so on indefinitely不确定地. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is ...
Orwell’s thoughts on the English language are something all teachers should consider talking about in their classrooms. This is because Orwell’s thoughts bring up different ideas about some of the ways the current English language is being used that are not usually thought of. In my experience...
The article is a little different from what I have expected after all. At first actually I’m expecting an analysis on the influence of language on our thoughts and further politics, with some linguistic and psychological grounds. But pointing out the ambiguity of modern English and showing its...