Sissi Lu Dr. Rhone WRIT 101 April 12‚ 2015 The Effect on Decision-making Eric Arthur Blair‚ who used the pen name George Orwell‚ was a British writer whose literature is marked by criticism of social injustice. The essay “Shooting an Elephant” is one of George Orwell’s most well-known works. The essay was wrote in 1936‚ it describes a story what happened in 1926‚ while Orwell was working as a British police officer in Burma‚ where in order to build the role of an assertive police officer and a
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From the instant one reads the novel “1984”‚ one sees the difference and shocking comparison of Oceania and our world. The protagonist is Winston Smith‚ his character and willingness to find out the history of Oceania is what drives the story. The Party is also one of the main characters in the story in which they oppress Oceania in a totalitarian way. But Oceania isn’t any different then other countries in our world; Big Brother was actually used as a scare tactic to make the people more dedicated
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Explore how satire effects the readers attitude toward the content of Alexander Pope’s‚ ‘Rape of the lock’‚ Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s travels’ and George Orwell’s ‘1984’. Satire is defined as a literary genre or form used to ridicule‚ tease‚ torment and ‘poke fun at’‚ satire can employ irony and burlesque as methods of playfully making fun of a subject while at the same time making an extremely valid and thought provoking point which excites and stimulates the reader with its intellectual wit
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Márton Mezei 23.02.2012. AP English Analyzing the rhetorical strategies of „Shooting an Elephant” “Shooting an Elephant” was written by George Orwell‚ and it describes an incident he experienced during the time he spent in a small town in India‚ as a police officer serving the British Empire. I found the writing interesting because of Orwell’s use of rhetorical strategies that slowly build up to the conclusion of the story‚ along with the peak of the action. The story ends in a detailed description
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Throughout the course of the years‚ a variety of people such as scholars‚ teachers‚ and historians have discussed a controversial topic‚ did George Orwell want to assassinate the elephant? George Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer in Burma that was hated by the Burmese because of his association with the British. Despite several claims‚ George Orwell actually opposed imperialism and its rules‚ yet his actions have muddled several and have caused them to think otherwise. One day‚ he is notified
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1984 by George Orwell Summary: The book is set in a fictive future in the year 1984. The world is split into three totalitarian super-states: Oceania (North and South-America‚ Britain and Ireland‚ Australia and South-Africa)‚ Eurasia (Europe and Russia) and Eastasia (China).These three super-states are constantly at war with each other‚ regularly forming different alliances. Each one of the super-states is too powerful and strong to be defeated by an alliance of the two other super-states and therefore
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time. Although Winston declares‚ “…This is not illegal (nothing was illegal since there were no longer any laws) but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death‚ or at least by twenty-five years in forced labor camp” (Orwell‚ 6). Winston says this when he begins writing the first pages of his diary‚ coincidently this is when he begins to commit thoughtcrime. Nevertheless‚ to BigBrother and the Inner Party all actions that should and should not be deemed a criminal act
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Born in 1903‚ Eric Arthur Blair‚ better known as George Orwell‚ was an English political novelist and journalist‚ who became a recognized writer due to his sharp criticism of political oppression around the world. Having experienced hard times during the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Revolution‚ Orwell turned into a biting critic of both capitalist and communist political systems. He was a devoted socialist‚ who believed in the consolidation of a government which aimed to support and ensure
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In Orwell’s story Animal Farm‚ he suggests that intellectuals might think that less intelligent people deserve abuse and manipulation. In his story the pigs were smarter than the rest of the animals. The pigs first started off as kind and treated everyone equal‚ soon they began to realize they could lie and manipulate the other animals. They could manipulate these other animals because they viewed the pigs as smarter and more trustworthy. These other animals were not as intelligent as the pigs and
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Quotes 1984 Questioning Reality and significance in life "Even the eyes from the coins pursued you" "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull" "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death" - Winston cannot communicate with the future and knows that he will be vaporised‚ so he is dead. "Was he then alone in the possession of the memory?" "Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest‚ a feeling that you had been cheated of something
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