Animal Farm
English political language has become deceptive, unclear and uncreative enabled by writers and speakers who use confusing words to appeal to their audiences. In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell states “The English Language is in a bad way”; He uses “Animal Farm” to show practical examples of his claim through the Pigs’ use of dying metaphors, pretentious diction and meaningless words.
Throughout the book, the animals that had the most influence over the others on the farm used visually descriptive phrases that no longer meant what their original meanings were, to express themselves; Orwell uses this as a form of satire to insult the lack of the originality within the English language. During the passionate speech …show more content…
After Napolean realized that the windmill the animals worked on tirelessly was destroyed in the middle of the night, he expressed his anger by saying, “‘Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 43). Napolean is furious because he thinks that Snowball invaded Animal Farm and ruined the windmill the animals had worked so hard on. The pig uses big words to say that Snowball damaged the windmill; Orwell uses this example to comment on how writers use pretentious diction to sound fair and impartial and make themselves sound more credible, but really, like the writers, Napolean used important sounding words to trick his audience into thinking that he was right. George Orwell shows examples of both pretentious diction and meaningless words to almost mock the fallacies in the English language that undermine what English political academic writers actually …show more content…
Orwell warned if writers continue to rationalize these types of writing, the English language will slowly become increasingly unoriginal throughout all writing and there would be a standard for ideas, making the circulation of new and creative ideas
Throughout the book, the animals that had the most influence over the others on the farm used visually descriptive phrases that no longer meant what their original meanings were, to express themselves; Orwell uses this as a form of satire to insult the lack of the originality within the English language. During the passionate speech …show more content…
After Napolean realized that the windmill the animals worked on tirelessly was destroyed in the middle of the night, he expressed his anger by saying, “‘Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 43). Napolean is furious because he thinks that Snowball invaded Animal Farm and ruined the windmill the animals had worked so hard on. The pig uses big words to say that Snowball damaged the windmill; Orwell uses this example to comment on how writers use pretentious diction to sound fair and impartial and make themselves sound more credible, but really, like the writers, Napolean used important sounding words to trick his audience into thinking that he was right. George Orwell shows examples of both pretentious diction and meaningless words to almost mock the fallacies in the English language that undermine what English political academic writers actually …show more content…
Orwell warned if writers continue to rationalize these types of writing, the English language will slowly become increasingly unoriginal throughout all writing and there would be a standard for ideas, making the circulation of new and creative ideas