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This paper analyzes and compares these two works by Orwell and Baldwin about language and how language serves as a tool that expresses more than just speech. The paper explains that, in Orwell's opinion, language is an instrument that reflects culture and evolves as culture declines, while in Baldwin's view, language emerges to fit a societal need.

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"Both writers understand that language evolves and reflects society and culture. Orwell states that "language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes" (Orwell). In reference to African American language, Baldwin seems to support Orwell's assertion, adding that the role of language "reveals the speaker. Language also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other--and in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him" (Baldwin). Both writers understand that language is a process that develops to express the personality of its culture."

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