Bad writing, he stresses, produces oppressive politics. He explicitly appeals to an audience that values “political regeneration.” To this audience, he argues that bad writing isn’t just a headache for the literary world.
To begin, Orwell argues that non-professional writers should consider style a political issue. Orwell ultimately argues that all writing is inherently political. In doing so, Orwell attempts to convince a politically minded audience that the specific way people express themselves-that is, their language itself-is inseparable from the content of their messages. He argues that the style in which people communicate determines the degree to which their governments can pass off lies as truths. In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell pays careful attention to style-that is, how a person says something: the tone, syntax, flow of sentences, metaphors, and choice of words.
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