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ORWELL George Orwell

Orwell's Idealism

In my interpretation of George Orwell's writings the overall ideology that informs his work emphasizes the power of language. In his time there was a lot of political upheaval and he was very concerned with writers and their abuse of the power their language contained and how that power affected readers. Though he doesn't express this concern outright its evident in his criticism's of the perversions of language that writers in the fields of politics, sociology and mass media were guilty of. In "Politics and the English Language" for example, Orwell writes that, "The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not," as if conscientious and deliberate use of language would somehow correct the political corruption of his time (p. 2). He clearly accuses politically motivated writers of misusing the English language to dress up their writing so that their audiences would be...

In his view they were snowing over the reader in an attempt to persuade him into taking sides with the writer's perspective. Some of the tactics he accuses writers of using are "dying metaphors" to "save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves"; "operators of verbal false limbs" to "pad each sentence with extra syllables which give it an appearance of symmetry"; and "pretentious diction" to "to dress up a simple statement and give an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgements" (p. 3). It seems that Orwell is asking his own audience to ignore his bias and to pay close attention to the use of these abuses of the English language because in his own idealistic image of a reader's experience of a text he or she alone has the power of interpretation.
Idealism motivated Orwell's criticisms and it was behind his own assumption of his life's purpose. First off, believing we have a life purpose, or that one has a destiny to do something at all is very idealistic. But for Orwell it seemed like a matter of course. For example, in his essay "Why I Write" Orwell opens with the airy line, "From a very early age,…

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Orwell, George. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970. Book.
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