Works Cited Page
http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html
http://www.world-english.org/stories_orwell.htm
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/docs/orwell.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
http://www.codoh.com/thoughtcrimes/tcportorw.html
http://sabrina-louise-webb.suite101.com/a-short-biography-george-orwell-a84174
Michael Sloan
Slang: A Reaction to George Orwell’s Politics and The English Language
This essay will describe George Orwell’s life and reaction to politics and the English language and events that inspired Orwell to write his political essays. In order to do this I will describe Orwell’s feelings on political writing, and why he believes the English language is ugly and in accurate I will also discuss some of his proposals on how he feels the style of English writing can be change into something much better or the correct way.
Orwell began supporting himself by writing book reviews for the New English Weekly until 1940. During World War II he was a member of the Home Guard and in 1941 began work for the BBC Eastern Service, mostly working on programs to gain Indian and East Asian support for Britain's war efforts. He was well aware that he was shaping propaganda, and wrote that he felt like "an orange that's been trodden on by a very dirty boot." Despite the good pay, he resigned in 1943 to become literary editor of Tribune, the left-wing weekly then edited by Aneurin Bevan and Jon Kimche. Orwell contributed a regular column entitled 'As I Please. ‘During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books of reportage such as Homage to Catalonia (describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War), Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), and The Road to Wigan Pier (which described the living conditions of poor miners in northern England). According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest journalist of his day and the...