Quote:
Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
But, obviously, if that purpose is ultimate affirmation of the status quo, i.e. keeping yourself and your readers from any uncomfortable thinking, then the answer will be: pile on the clichés and create that warm, pleasant, mushy vibe of pseudo-thinking that will keep everybody's brains blissfully unaware of their own dullness.
|
Did Orwell himself really break through convention or challenge his readers? His most well known books are conventionally-told tales that the Cold War west was ready to hear.
If you think through the linguistic politics implied in this essay & 1984, it comes down to a kind of Leninist/Confucian rectification of names. Through calling things by their proper names -- which are what exactly? -- the writer will raise the consciouness of readers and bring order and harmony to the realm.