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Works of George Orwell: Appendix To 1984

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Orwell, George

Orwell, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Appendix To 1984:

The Principles Of Newspeak And "Politics And The English Language"

The linguistic satire of 1984 in part stems from, or at any rate
parallels, a similar kind of satire in several works of a writer whom Orwell
very much admired: Jonathan Swift. In Swift's A Tale of a Tub, and in Book III
of Gulliver's Travels, there is a brilliant satire on what Swift considered to
be the corruption of language for political or religious purposes. Swift's
ideal of expression involved, above all things , clearness and precision of
meaning. As he said in A ...

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