![]() ![]() As he will later claim that everything now is political, his essay is a call to action, to a resistance to the degenerative effects of poor and inaccurate uses of language. Orwell isn't presenting an inconsequential critique of English language in his essay. But as with the cycle of the drunk, the cycle of poor thinking-poor speaking can be broken. Poor use of language leads to lazy, unoriginal thinking which in turn makes for even more misleading language language. This is the central argument of the essay. ![]() ![]() The point is that the process is reversible. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. A man may take a drink because he feels himself to be a failure and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. ![]()
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