George Orwell's Politics And The English Language

George Orwell states in his article "Politics and the English language " that English Language is losing its identity due to bad habits of writers and it is common now. He addresses the issue along with the six solutions for better writing to improve English language. In "Politics and The English Language", George Orwell tackles the issue of English Language decline due to bad language used, but the six solutions that Orwell stated are being broken by him that weakens his argument on English Language destruction that leads an individual to have sense of manipulation. In other words, his language is manipulative towards the issue of bad habits of writers.

George Orwell writes about the decline in English Language and How it can be improved
On the other hand author uses a simile to convey his message by saying "It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cab to aeroplanes." (Orwell 234) In this example, Orwell is explaining that old language should be preferred more than the new English language because now it has lost its importance. The two examples used earlier in this paragraph to support the idea that Orwell's language is manipulative because he says to follow six rules, but at the same time he says to break it whenever needed. I believe that it is manipulated that first five points he says to follow in writing to make it better, but the last one to break all if required by stating to not follow at the end of it and realizing that he is breaking all the rules himself in his writing that is where the manipulation comes into play its role to say what people really want to hear. His action of the manipulation leads to a weak argument of the English language being declined because new English language is way far different than old language. Language of old days had meaning and nowadays people have no idea of actual words or they are aware of the words,
Such as he chooses five different passages that he believes are not good piece of writing because it addresses the issues that we are suffering from in English language. As Orwell states the five examples of (235) that he believes are evidence of bad writing habits, by him stating what he believes about the other writers is only his personal opinion in regards to the issue addressed earlier. He is presenting the bad habits that are misleading in English Language as a social issue, but somehow he is stating what he believes is an issue and what is his take on it. It is more of manipulation because he is a social critique and have also studied political issues, so he knows how to convince people? what they want to hear? How an issue can be addressed? The answer to all these questions lead to a manipulative individual who is extremely convincing. In other words, by stating the issue and solution according to his point of view with such a convincing power lead people to be manipulated by his reasons given for a