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    1984 Overview

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    I just want to say that I felt that giving a speech would be better than making a video because there’s really no way that I can make 1984 funny. I would honestly classify George Orwell’s work as a horror novel. It doesn’t have the traditional horror elements like zombies or a haunted house. That kind of horror is child’s play. The horror in 1984 is the scariest kind because it almost seems plausible. The story revolves around a totalitarian society where the government is trying and succeeding to

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    1984 outline

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    Taylor Worley Mr. Walker LA 12 September 4‚ 2012 1984 I. Introduction A. George Orwell’s 1984 is a parody meant to expose the injustices of the time in which it was written and reveal the dangers of not confronting and correcting them. II. Historical climate: many governments violating human rights; attempting to control the ideas of the people A. WW II B. Stalin- “Stalin ruled with an iron fist‚ and was famous for his midnight purges: he would round up hundreds of citizens at

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    Despair In 1984

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    The world around us is just like the book 1984 by the despair‚ people losing their human qualities and becoming soulless automotrons. So these are the examples of these terrible things in our world. The despair in the book 1984 by George Orwell starts with the Winston being tortured in room 101 with a rat and electric shock therapy that only hurt and scared Winston while also trying to brainwash Winston to love Big Brother meaning the government. In the real world the government doesn’t make there

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    1984 War Is Peace

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    1984 essay. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." This is the slogan of the Ministry of Truth‚ a branch of the totalitarian government in post-war London. The figurehead of this government is Big Brother‚ who employs a vast army of informers called the Thought Police who watch and listen to every citizen at all times through a device called a telescreen for the least signs of criminal deviation or unorthodox thoughts. This novel‚ like Orwell’s earlier work Animal Farm and

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    1984 Essay After reading Orwell’s 1984 and examining Stalin’s rule over Soviet Russia it is safe to say that the two are very similar. Many features of Big Brother and Oceania mimic those of Stalin and the USSR. As well‚ the ability to change the truth and rewrite the past was abused for both regimes. Also‚ the Party and it’s enemies are actual representations of real people who were against Stalin and the USSR. Finally‚ Big Brother and Stalin did have some differences though very few. By discussing

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    Doublethink In 1984

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    “Freedom is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear‚” says George Orwell‚ writer of 1984. The Party has taken away the rights of the people to know the truth in order to maintain power. Although some would believe that the most central paradox in Orwell’s 1984 is the Party’s slogan “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength‚” it is clearly the act of doublethink because it’s the Party’s form of psychological control in order to maintain power. To demonstrate‚ it is the

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    1984 By George Orwell

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    The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell. This book represents the society in Oceania through the character name Winston‚ who is an outer party that works in the Ministry of Truth. In Oceania‚ people are surveilled by the Big Brother and have no freedom. This seems to appear in today’s society by how we are watched by the government through social media or even on computers. There are many similarities to be found include Social Media‚ Privacy‚ and the Mutability. Nowadays technology is a big

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    Essay 1984

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    fundamentally similar to or different from his obsession with O’Brien? Cite examples from the text to prove your opinions. Study Questions 1. 1984 is full of images and ideas that do not directly affect the plot‚ but nevertheless attain thematic importance. What are some of these symbols and motifs‚ and how does Orwell use them? Some of the most important symbols and motifs in 1984 include Winston’s paperweight‚ the St. Clement’s Church picture and the rhyme associated with it‚ the prole woman singing outside

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    1984 Contradictions

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    Nothing is what it seems in the cryptic worlds of Winston Smith and Thomas Anderson (alias Neo)‚ the main protagonists of 1984 and The Matrix respectively. 1984 takes place in a dystopian society that is created by a group of individuals collectively referred to as the Party. Smith is himself a member of the Party; however‚ he has the capacity to look beyond his social status and see the injustice and horrors that permeate the lives of all people. Winston’s subsequent treachery of the Party is obscured

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    1984 Essay

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    2012 1984 Essay Imagine living in a world where technology is controlled by a higher power and you basically have no say in your own everyday life. In the novel written by George Orwell 1984‚ this imagination is reality for Winston (main character) and all of the book’s society. Dictatorship by video surveillance is how society is run in the book 1984. It becomes something of intensity that is described how the use of technology is used to control public and even private behavior. In 1984‚ the

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