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    "Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love." (John LeCarre) In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear‚ characters are betrayed by the closest people to them. The parents betray their children‚ mostly unintentionally. The children deceive their parents because of their greed and power hunger. Their parents were eventually forgiven‚ but the greedy children were not. Parents and their children betray one and other‚ and are only able to do so because they are

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    Utopia, 1984 Comparison

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    Research Paper: Love in Utopia‚ Brave New World and 1984 Love is without a doubt one of the most powerful emotions in the world. Most people in the world who have experienced this emotion know that with love‚ almost anything is possible. ¡§When in Love‚ the greater is his/her capacity for suffering‚ or anything else in that matter¡¨ (Miguel de Unamuno‚ The Tragic Sense of Life). The governments in both Brave New World and 1984 understand that eliminating love and loyalty is important in their continual

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    "1984 Commentary".

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    George Orwell ’s 1984‚ is a novel about the life of Winston Smith living in a totalitarianism state where Big Brother has control‚ power and dominates the lives of citizens. There are many significant paragraphs which stand out in the book however I extracted the passage on pages 127‚ 128 from "Folly‚ Folly‚ his heart....." to "...the absence of a telescreen" because it has great literary insight and significant elements of symbolism behind it.(This is where Winston heard the prole women singing

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    spied on by the government. Technology is advancing quickly and so is the way the government retains the people’s information. Although‚ people feared to have a society alike to the one in the novel 1984 written by George Orwell‚ the society in America is very similar in tremendous ways. In the 1984 novel by George Orwell‚ the government or best known as Big Brother has complete power over the people in Oceania. Big Brother also determines which technology may be used. Written in the novel‚ “The

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    1984 Formal Essay

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    Angela Campoli ENG 4U1 Ms. Simon Father Leo J. Austin CSS Nov. 19‚ 2014 The Loss of Humanity in 1984 Every human being holds an intrinsic set of natural behaviours which ultimately affect how they perceive their surroundings. For the majority‚ these behaviours come naturally so they have no control over them‚ unless they are negatively influenced to do otherwise. In George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984‚ the citizens of Oceania are unfortunately controlled by the Party in every way possible. The Party’s

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    significant is the theme of betrayal in the play Macbeth? Betrayal is a big part in the play‚ Macbeth betrays his king and leader when he kills him‚ King Duncan trusted Macbeth with his life‚ obviously shouldn’t have! King Duncan was innocent but Lady Macbeth and Macbeth desperately wanted Macbeth to become king. I don’t think Macbeth wanted to kill Duncan but he sort of had to for his wife was sure he was going to make a perfect king‚ much better than Duncan. The betrayal is a big part in the scene

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    Reflection Paper 1984

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    During 1984: The Game‚ I learned the importance of the value of independence and freedom. Previous to playing the game‚ I would consistently wear whatever I wanted‚ I would write with whatever I wanted to‚ and I was allowed to live ownlife. But the game gave me a new perspective‚ not only on Winston and his hardships but on my peers. While engaged in the game‚ due to the secrecy developed within the tension of ignorance‚ I felt paranoid and oppressed. Because nobody knew what role everybody in

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    and population. The People’s Republic of China went through a drastic change in culture and as a nation under a communist government. The methods that this government had used under Mao Zedong’s direction‚ can also be seen used by the government in ‘1984’‚ a novel by George Orwell. Both governments used their powers to control their nation and citizens to an extreme. Under Mao Zedong’s government‚ the Chinese suffered from state-controlled media‚ destruction of traditional cultural practices and the

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    Winton Smith, 1984

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    conforms outwardly while questions inwardly. Analyze the nature and elements of this internal conflict‚ and discuss how the tension between conformity and defiance contributes to the meaning of the work. Winston Smith‚ the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984 is an example of an everyday citizen in Oceania who obeys the rules of the government but questions them inwardly without speaking up. He is described as the only hope for the totalitarian system to be abolished‚ but ends up weaker than the readers

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    1984 moral dilemma

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    extent is a character’s courage or strength revealed through confrontation with a moral dilemma? Moral dilemmas can lead to either revealing courage and/or strength in a literary work or they may simply show the lack of it. In George Orwell’s 1984‚ courage and/or strength are revealed through confrontation with the moral dilemma of Winston rebelling against the party fuelled by his hate vs. surrendering because of the controlling and powerful party and the consequences of his actions. In the

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