Question

Choose one point from Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” with which you agree and one point with which you disagree. Include reasons for your arguments.

Answer 1

I would say that by not using language correctly we can give incorrect meaning to our words and language has the power to influence people and to stir people to action if used properly, so I agree with Orwell in that sense. I would say though that I disagree that language is not well used in politics as there are many examples of powerful language like Martin Luther King's speech of I had a dream which stirred many Americans to support the civil rights movement of the '60s and early '70's for example or the poetry of Muhammed Ali to poke fun at his opponents and also to show that he had no quarrel with the Vietnamese.