English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Opening Sentence, Horace, George Orwell
12 Jan 2017
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This essay although it was written a long time ago is relevant today. Has language lost its capacity to tell the truth and become a weapon of propaganda. If we think of this essay in historical terms we need to remember that this is the time when the. Page 9: middle: (cid:862)i said earlier (cid:863, decadence sense of corruption at the heart of language, curable he is drawing on a metaphor of disease. Casting himself in the role of a physician. He is looking at the symptoms of the disease that he suspects is out there and is diagnosing the nature of the disease and prescribing a cure for it. He is still, in 1946, part of the therapeutic culture. He is casting himself as the physician of the age of propaganda. Someone who will approach and deal with the disease of propaganda that he sees around him. Feminism has been extremely effective in changing language.
