Recently, writers has been including dying metaphors in their writing. Dying metaphors are metaphors that has lost their original meaning due to overuse and repetition. Orwell believes that many politicians and influential writers has been using dying metaphors in their speeches. Not only does this weaken the purpose of their claim, it also makes it unclear about what they are trying to say and do. An example of a politician using dying metaphors would be a speech written by John F. Kennedy. In his inaugural speech, he used phrases such as "hand of God" and "jungle of suspicion" which weakened the purpose of his speech. It would have been more powerful without these dying metaphors and if he came up with original ones to use. Another example would be President Nasheed in his December 2009 speech. President Nasheed used phrases such as "in spite of the odds" and "will be the winners of tomorrow" which weakened his connection with the audience. These phrases made his speech very vague and made it unclear what he was going to do. Instead of making the speech more powerful, these metaphors did the opposite. Writers should try to stay away from dying metaphors and create original phrases to use in their writing.
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