Orwell and the English Language

In his passage George Orwell delivers a message that is undeniably true; American literature is slowly losing its substance. Our society did more than just kill the English language, it raped and murdered it. There was a time where literature was quick to reveal its point but rich in its illustration and subject to thorough comprehension and engaging response. The modern approach has massacred these aspirations to depict and describe ideas in a quick but effective fashion. Instead, modern writers walk circles around their main point leaving trails of irrelevance. Now a days, fluffy phrases and washed up metaphors are expected to carry the weight of explanation. This approach is ineffective. Modern writers have lost sight of literature’s general goal, which I believe is to relate to the audience with a specific thought or theory that is displayed in an interesting and dissectible fashion. Instead the passion and inspiration is lost and hardly compensated with an overload of extensive vocabulary.