Monday, March 14, 2016

Areas of focus for reading assignment -- finishing Part One

As you finish Part One of 1984, Please focus on the following:

What external conflicts are occurring in the story? How do these parallel the internal conflicts we have already discussed?

Try to establish a comprehensive list of the new concepts developed by Orwell in this story. Try to restrict your identification to the ideas that are truly new inventions -- with new terms. For example, the use of propaganda may be different or more extreme in Oceana, but propaganda itself is nothing new. However, Newspeak is an invented term for an invented idea.

Let's list these issues here:


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