Why I Write George Orwell

Orwell addresses political writing as a form of the writer giving a viewpoint of an event to an audience by using direct language to give an image to an audience. In his collected essay, “Why I Write,” Orwell mentions the fact that all background information that he writes is because he believes that it is not possible for you to “assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development,” emphasizing the idea that writers use an emotional attachment to their writings. Political writing is a sense of direction for the audience of the writer that he is expressing his feelings to in order to show off a more biased viewpoint towards a goal or motive. An example of this is used by Orwell himself, where he gives a starting point
To illustrate his point, Orwell uses writings from two professors, an essay on psychology in politics, a communist pamphlet, and a letter in Tribune, all of which consisting of two common faults: staleness of imagery and lack of precision. He states that political writing is indeed bad writing, creating a generalization for us to understand that speeches made by politicians are never “fresh, vivid, home-made…” speeches. What is intriguing, is that having a politically based, homemade speech, gives the speaker a distant presence in his speaking. He gives the depiction that those who read political based work, knows that it is not the true feelings of himself, but of the one who wrote the speech. The different uses of pretentious diction, meaningless words, dying metaphors, and operators, or verbal false limbs, allows the writer to dictate what the audience is able to comprehend in the writing. The writer could use jargon, misused words, and overall misinterpreted connotation, to manipulate reader’s understanding, potentially allowing readers to be deceived by the author without them even