values. Through exploring perspectives and connections between texts‚ we can heighten our understanding of the significance between social/cultural influence and key principles. Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) both provide dystopic projections about a future where the corruption of power and the exploitation of technology create significant threats to humanity. The context of the two texts has obvious influence on the key concepts and values
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What people experience in their childhood reflects on their personality and how they behave. In this short story called Raymond’s Run by Tony Cade Bambara‚ the protagonist Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker‚ known as Squeaky minds her older brother who has mental retardation. Looking after her brother and keep herself up as a fabulous runner really make her strong physically and mentally; she is a girl who strongly believes in practice to get anything better‚ and she respects anyone who works hard as
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On April 18‚ 1931‚ Thomas‚ J Pressley witnessed a man hanging from a limb. The newspaper article title states ‘Mob Lynches Negro in Court House Yard”. It stated that the mob of whites’ march into the jailhouse took out George Smith a Negro and hang him from a tree. That is when Mr. Pressely saw him hanging. The reason he hung is that a white girl at that time stated that he came into her room and tried to attack her and she scratched him in his face. So‚ when he was found the white girl pointed
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Having studied George Orwell’s ’Nineteen Eighty-Four’‚ I intend to discuss the type of Government envisaged by Orwell and to what extent his totalitarian Party‚ ’Ingsoc’‚ satirises past regimes. I will also discuss Orwell’s motive in writing such a piece and how his writing style helps it become clear.<br><br>The main theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four concerns the restrictions imposed on individual freedom by a totalitarian regime. Orwell shows how such a system can impose its will on the people through
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In his stories Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm‚ George Orwell referenced the use of propaganda‚ as well as its consequences. If one were to read those stories‚ the overall message that could be concluded is that propaganda can be dangerous. While the term propaganda carried a negative connotation in the past‚ propaganda in today’s society is not always manifested in physical media and may not always be obvious. Today‚ propaganda can present itself in people’s thoughts‚ social media‚ and sermons
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How complete are the levels of control in worlds of ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ and ‘V for Vendetta.’ 1984 has a more complete level of control when compared with V for Vendetta. The party in 1984 has almost complete control of its people ‘nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull’ which the party maintains their control and power by fabricating the past and controlling people’s thoughts. For example in 1984‚ people are watched from telescreens‚ and monitored for ‘though
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GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: MODERNIST FABLE If thought corrupts language‚ language can also corrupt thought.[1] The world that Orwell presents in Nineteen Eighty-four has often been called a nightmare vision of the future. Writing sixteen years into that future‚ we can see that not all of Orwell’s predictions have been fulfilled in their entirety! Yet‚ “1984 expresses man’s fears of isolation and disintegration‚ cruelty and dehumanisation…Orwell’s repetition of obsessive
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storm in the first place. They are only in the storm because the older brother wanted Doodle to be able to run when he went to school. However‚ it’s not as kind as it sounds; the brother wasn’t trying to teach him to run because Doodle wanted to. No‚ the brother was teaching him because he was embarrassed to have a disabled little brother. His pride was the main motivation behind teaching him to run. We see that clearly when they say what words can mend “a cracked pride” at the end of the story. However
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Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Two very common errors among writers are run-on sentences and comma splices. Amazingly‚ both of these errors are caused by not knowing what a sentence is. A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and verb (also known as a clause) that expresses a complete thought. A sentence can also be called an independent clause: clause because it contains a subject and a verb‚ and independent because it can stand alone. Let’s look at some examples of this type
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You probably would have never thought to compare “Everything Will Be Okay” and “Raymond’s Run.” Why? Because they are 2 totally different stories‚ but actually‚ these two stories are very similar when it comes to theme.. In Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara‚ the narrator (Squeaky) is very protective over her brother‚ Raymond. However‚ her being protective sometimes leads her to losing friends rather than gaining friends. She isolates herself from other people‚ and if she becomes really close with
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