A Big Family

possible each outer party member is always in sight of a telescreen and almost always in range of a hidden microphone. These techniques are found in all rooms inside their apartments and also often in public areas. Kids are even trained to denounce their family to the party if they hear or see anything suspicious. People who try to conspire against the party will be caught by the thought police and vaporized (Orwell, 2008). Similar to Orwell's society Paul Szodra writes in his…

Armine Maghakyan Maghakyan 1 Robert Savino Oventile English 1 C 28 September 2017 Laughter in Anthropocene: solution or ignorance? For almost twelve thousand years, our planet lived in an analogously stable epoch named Holocene by the scientists (McNeill and Engelke 1). Holocene (entirely new) period is impressively…

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.” (109) Elie Wiesel's Night shows the mental and physical horror bestowed upon them. Night demonstrates the importance of fighting dehumanization by recognizing the oppression early, informing the people, and enlisting bystanders to resist. The Nazis’ slowly worsening oppression of the Jews, demonstrates the importance of recognizing oppressors in a society quickly and not allowing them to gain traction. For instance…

Cameron Ross 11 October 2017 Mr. Weeks UW 111 Grit- Book Review The uncertainty of the world is what makes it the breeding ground for scientific exploration and discovery. There a multitudes of questions, left unanswered, whether it be the creation of the universe, or the complex in workings known as the human brain. One of these great anomalies is the question, how do people become successful? There are numerous ways in which one might answer such a question, from personal belief to scientific…

Winston is constantly reminded that Big Brother is always watching him, knowing if and when a thought crime is committed against him. In this way, Set design by Chloe Lamford is envisioned to resemble a television screen using black barriers looking into the stage, this is made to appear as if the audience themselves were the all-seeing Big Brother. Tim Reid’s use of a live off-stage camera furthers the surveillance theme. Winston and Julia…

the sole human survivor flung into a senseless alien universe, Arthur must come to terms that the planet he once defined himself by is inconsequential: “There was no way his imagination could feel the impact of the whole Earth having gone, it was too big. “He thought of all the people he had been close to. No reaction. [….] McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out. When he came round a second later he found he was sobbing” (53). Here,…

concerns was that even though a communist society is an idealistic one, it is impractical as shown through the book. Orwell tries to educate people and show them at it just isn’t likely that the soviets would not use their power to further their own. One big motif is the idea of doublethink, which is where people think of two contradicting things at the same time, but don’t question it. Orwell uses this where a speaker for the Party needs to change his speech midway from Eurasia to EastAsia…

20th century author George Orwell’s 1984 is a bleak yet powerful depiction of a dystopia deprived of individualism and free thinking. Several themes are explored throughout the novel’s progression such as freedom, gender, and technology. However, Orwell’s message about power is especially strong. 1984 is essentially a warning of the corruption and apathy that power brings when it is abused, as can be seen from the perspectives of the protagonists and progression of events. In the country of…

Sonny must always obscure actual details in order to protect himself and his family when in jail. This form of non-communication contrasts the established way that Sonny and Aila communicate. Whereas silence was a form of comfort when their relationship started, in times of conflict where Sonny has lost his freedom, silence must become a form of defense. By using nonverbal cues, Sonny can protect his wife and his family from becoming implicated in the conflict. Will continues this trend of…

While many concepts on astronomy of the ancient Greeks are no longer relevant, many of their ideas were used to guide astronomers today in establishing concepts more valid. The ancient Greeks had no clear division of science and philosophy. Neither did they have separate and developed fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. The formerly deficient range of information the ancient Greeks had, allowed an individual to become an expert in several fields whereas nowadays, there is…