is the thematic focus of Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible”‚ which provides a means of portraying the negative repercussions of society’s lack of understanding and conflicting pressures to conform. This idea is furthered in George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen-Eighty-Four” (1984) and W.H Auden’s poem “Refugee Blues.” These texts encapsulate the ambivalent notions of belonging and evaluate the significance of social values and attitudes upon one’s sense of social inclusion and exclusion. Society’s need
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"If thought corrupt language‚ language can corrupt thought" This is a statement from the "Politics and the English language" written by George Orwell. He says‚ " A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation". The whole essay is mocking other writers on their language usage. He claims that the language is not used to its full extent. People use words the size of continents and in the end those big words say the same thing as a three-letter word. Those people also end up confusing them selves
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The Resistance of Winston and Julia In his novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’‚ George Orwell created a new world which is divided into three intercontinental super-states after a global war. The novel occurs in Oceania‚ which is one of these super-states. There are three parts of the social system; the upper-class Inner Party‚ the middle-class Outer Party and the lower class Proles‚ who make up 85 percent of the population and represent the working class‚ in other words; Big Brother; the party leader
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Name Prof Class Date The theme of Totalitarianism in “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood All throughout the text “The Handmaid ’s Tale”‚ there is a permanent theme of totalitarianism. Regimes that follow a totalitarian cultural ensure dominance over their subjects with the use of manipulation (Finigan 435). Besides the use of manipulation‚ the authority figures in “The Handmaid ’s Tale” dominate the subjects by controlling their experience of life‚ time‚ memory and history (Finigan 435)
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There are still governments today that practice totalitarianism and dictatorship. The dystopian society portrayed in the novel 1984 resonated with people who had been oppressed post World War II. How did the government control the people? Eric Arthur Blair‚ who used the pseudonym George Orwell‚ was an English novelist‚ journalist‚ and critic. Orwell was born on June 25‚ 1903 in India. From the years 1922 to 1927 he served as an imperial police officer of India and during World War II‚ he served in
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Animal Farm: Book Review Animal Farm is a dystopian‚ allegorical novel written by George Orwell and published in 1945. Orwell was a novelist as well as a journalist‚ and is best known for his narrative documentaries and his novellas’‚ including “Nineteen Eighty-Four‚” and “Animal Farm.” His novella “Animal Farm” mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between common farm animals and important communist/socialist leaders
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(radio-frequency identification) should not be used to track people (e.g. human implants and RFID tags on people or products). Do you agree? Support your argument with concrete examples. Famous novelist George Orwell once wrote in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment…In the assumption that every sound you made was overheard‚ and‚ except in darkness‚ every movement scrutinized.” (George Orwell ’s‚ 1984 - telescreen
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Powerplay involves the interplay of different types of power relationships between the powerful and the opressed‚ and the extent to which power resides in individuals. There are an abundance of themes and issues explored in Nineteen Eighty-Four (hereafter “1984”) that relate to the object of power and its representation through the political state of “the party”‚ rebellion and language. Similarly‚ these themes of the use‚ abuse‚ and manipulation of power are used in the Peter Nicholson Cartoon in
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Orwell’s 1984 Eleven years prior to the beginning of the action in 1984‚ Winston Smith accidentally comes across a photograph of three men: Jones‚ Aronson‚ and Rutherford. The "party" had contrived a plot to prove the three guilty of treason. The picture‚ however‚ because of its true location and date in relation to the party’s false scenario‚ shows the men’s innocence. The picture provides Orwell’s protagonist‚ Winston Smith‚ with "concrete‚ unmistakable evidence of falsification" of the past
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Soon after the conclusion of World War II in 1945‚ Communism posed a threat in the United States. This threat‚ also known as the Red Scare‚ was triggered because of the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. The tension between the two superpowers led to the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s. Because the Soviets were a communistic country‚ many Americans feared Communism because of the influence that it had in America. Many intellectuals supported Communism in the U
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