This text, "Politics and the English Language" is extremely opinionated and a subjective truth. From the information given at the top of the page we see that this view of English is out dated by about 60 years. We also can understand the George Orwell’s opinion of the English language is very strong. I personally agree with only a small portion of this article, I find that some of Orwell’s claims about the use of metaphors relevant to today’s writing styles. In today’s world we use metaphors often to describe thing in our lives, however I agree that some metaphors “are used without the knowledge of their meaning.
Most of his opinions about “Pretentious diction” I find to be incorrect for the present day English. Nowadays our vocabulary has expanded to encompass most of these words as normal vocabulary and the words we use from different languages have either become customary or have been translated into English and used. In comparison some of the language that Orwell uses to describe these “pretentious words” today we tend to find them used to sound intelligent or pretentious, for example Orwell uses the word “sordid” in his writing and currently that word is not used often in language.
I also disagree with Orwell’s approach to the writing of art and literary criticism. From this text it appears that Orwell’s prefers it if writing is all cut and dry, that authors don’t dance around a point or describe things “vaguely.” I find that Orwell’s examples of meaningless (words as applied to art), do hold value in description and criticism. The words “living” and “dead” (when applied to art) do hold meaning in the art world today, and are valued pieces of criticism.
"Politics and the English Language" is an example of subjective truth because not only was this an opinion at the time, but the information has changed and will continue to change.
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