Critical analysis "The Word Police" By Michiko Kakutani

Critical analysis "The Word Police" By Michiko Kakutani

Introduction

Michiko Kakutani is an American critic and occupies an important position in the literary critic of the United States. “The word police” serve as a story that represents the persuasive and distinctive writing style of the author. This essay will make a critical analysis of this piece of writing by Kakutani highlighting the main premise and the overall strength of the literary piece.

Discussion

The writer used examples and illustrations to provide support to his claim. The main claim made by the author is that the language that humans use is on the edge of irrationality. It is because a person has an ability to hide the true identities and inequalities with the help of understatements. In addition to the understatements, Kakutani mentioned a point that humans also made attempts to distract attention from reality and the real issues of biases and injustice in the society (Kakutani, 1993).

This shows that the writer has taken the support from the supporting arguments in order to make his basic premise clear. The central premise does not have the ability to stand on its own and, therefore, has taken the help from the illustrations and the examples so as to make the premise and the theme of the assay clear. The essay is well supported and is in a potent form, but the target audience of the author is unbiased and the arguments did not make them satisfy. The author made repeated criticisms on the political movements. She fails to provide her audience with an alternative that could help the better stay in the society. The biased nature of the audience served as a tangent that distracts her claims.

The claim that is presented by the author at the start of the essay is that political correctness is an element prevalent in the society. In order to provide support to her fundamental premise, she provides several examples that serve as a supporter for the main point. Illustrations of icons are used so as to show that their redevelopment pacify the growing demand for P.C. She made all the attempts so as to influence her audience in her direction while associating them with her claim. In view, of author political correctness means "a vision of a more just, inclusive society in which racism, sexism and prejudice of all sorts have been erased," (Kakutani,1993) But she exclaimed that the methods that are used by the activists to politically correct the situations have the goals too much extreme and abstract in nature. She provided the validity of her claim; she provided an example of the women performing an art of chatting at a Modern Language Association. This illustration proves to be of strong support to her claim and make her audience persuade that the P.C. techniques are excessive in nature. The support was plausible on its own, and made all efforts to reinforce the fundamental premise. However, the supporting material provides evidences that the audience might ...