double bars‚ like small animal cages”. We have a clear description of the jail‚ and how unpleasant it would be living there. Once Orwell states “There were the condemned men‚ due to be hanged within the next week or two”. The jail has a very eerie feeling‚ knowing that all the people inside were set to die. When describing one of the men and their adventure to death‚ Orwell never states what the prisoner had done wrong. He is described as “a puny wisp of a man”. The man is “chained”‚ “handcuffed” and
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English Language”‚ I automatically thought of Pastor Eddie Long. I know your thinking‚ “What in the world is he talking about?”‚ but Orwell and Pastor Long are alike in many ways. They both spoke out against a topic very critically‚ Orwell against bad language and Pastor Long against homosexuality‚ but still ended up involving themselves in the activity. George Orwell had a strong stance against the state of the English language. He talked harshly about the English language but was he guilty of the
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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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George Orwell’s novel‚ 1984‚ portrays a chilling picture of how the power of the state could dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning. The Party controls every aspect of life and sets strict guidelines. Every inner and outer party member has to worship Big Brother unless they are a prole. Proles are the lower class part of society. Winston is an outer Party member and works in the fiction department fixing history and the Party’s faults. Winston feels frustrated by the
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Winston Smith was a very typical thirty nine year old Outer Party worker. Winston though‚ had a trait that the “party” vastly disliked. It was his own dislike of the Party. Because Winston is so real it was hard for them to miss this dislike. Before getting into that‚ more should be known about Winston. Winston lived a life of misery and pain and only a few times in his life was he allowed to experiencing joy and love. He lived in a society where the value of technology was greater than the value
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Farm: George Orwell=s Animal Farm: A metonym for a dictatorship Harry Sewlall Vista University Distance Education Campus PRETORIA E-mail: swlll-h@acaleph.vista.ac.za It seems‚ to warp George Orwell’s elegant phrase‚ that “All animals may speak freely but some may speak more freely than others” (Ronge‚ 1998:13). It is the lesson of George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ a little book I am sure much of the ANC leadership would have read‚ if not always taken to heart (Carlin‚ 2001:4). Abstract Orwell= Farm:
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In his novel he put problems that he thought could escalate into something much bigger. "Orwell describes a province of Oceania (formerly known as Great Britain) as an industrialized wasteland‚ dirty and rigidly controlled by a political regime known as the Party." He believes that these are the consequences of what could happen if people let
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Winston Smith is the protagonist of the dystopian science fiction novel 1984‚ written by George Orwell. In the book‚ Winston is an employee of the Ministry of Truth‚ an organization in charge to rewrite the entire history of the world‚ to better adapt it to the " truths " disseminated by Big Brother and the Poitical Party. Winston’s task is therefore to rewrite historical documents‚ censoring any information that does not reflect the line imposed by the regime ‚ which varies on a daily basis. Ongoing
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The theme of this entry revolves around a very sensitive topic‚ humanity. The message penetrates even deeper and touches on the fact that killing a human‚ under any circumstance‚ is considered a crime. Also‚ George Orwell wants readers to recognize the value of an individual’s existence‚ specifically a healthy individual. These messages are delivered to the readers by the techniques that the author incorporated in his entry. One of these techniques include highlighting a particular action that
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George Orwell’s book‚ “1984‚” had me convinced that such a world or society could exist. As I read I imagined the story of the book and saw it taking place right before my eyes‚ word after word. I was so convinced that I had to do a little research to ensure that it was merely fiction and could not possibly be true. Any book that can make me question the existence of such a society is definitely a good one. Throughout my reading I gradually came up with my own ending to the story based off of the
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