Response to Orwell on Question number 1

George Orwell argues against the "belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes." I agree with Orwell that we use language selfishly and to our own benefit. When we are young language is more natural, but once we understand what it can do for us we shape for our own being. We learn how to use it, what tone to use for certain situations, how to make others confused, and ultimately to get what we want.These characteristics is what make makes it unnatural. The definition of natural states that something is natural by existing in or caused by nature, not by humankind. Language is most definitely touched and in Orwell's opinion destroyed by humankind. It is no longer a natural thing, it is in existence for our own use. Even Shakespeare created words to get his own meaning across in his writing. Orwell is right language is not a natural growth, but an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.