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Politics and english language essay by George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.[2] His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.[3][4][5][6]

George Orwell

Orwell's press card portrait, 1943

BornEric Arthur Blair

25 June 1903

Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British IndiaDied21 January 1950 (aged 46)

University College Hospital, London, EnglandResting placeAll Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, EnglandPen nameGeorge OrwellOccupationNovelist, essayist, journalist, literary criticAlma materEton CollegeGenreDystopia, roman à clef, satireSubjectsAnti-fascism, anti-Stalinism, anarchism, democratic socialism, literary criticism, journalism, and polemicYears active1928–1950Spouse

Eileen O'Shaughnessy

(m. 1936; died 1945)

Sonia Brownell

(m. 1949)

ChildrenRichardSignature

As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[7]

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime",[8][9] as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink.

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Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language.

Cover of the Penguin edition

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 the truth rather than express it. This unclear prose was a "contagion" which had spread to those who did not intend to hide the truth, and it concealed a writer's thoughts from himself and others.[1] Orwell encourages concreteness and clarity instead of vagueness, and individuality over political conformity.

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