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Anggita Dwi Primasiwi Nicke Yunita Moecharam, M.A. Exploring Fiction 24th of November 2016 An Essay of The Mandarin Exam by Farrukh Dondhy “The Mandarin Exam” is a short story, in which, Farrukh Dhondy, the author, illustrates the true nature of free will of human being. In the name of free will, Spiggy, the main character, recklessly starts a conflict between him against the society by not taking the English exam. In fact, at the time Spiggy decides to leave the exam, he has been influenced by…

authority. In this book, the audience is introduced to a man named Winston Smith, a middle-aged man who lives in Airstrip One, a city in the huge country named Oceania. The government that is in control, is called the Party, which is led by one man named Big Brother. All around the whole country…

Reason Series Paragraphs For the first segment of the Reason Series the topic of conversation revolves around one main question “Can science disprove God?” and all the little questions that go along with it. After watching the video, the most convincing answer I took away from the segment’s essential question “Can science disprove God?” was the idea that science can never truly disprove anything. It struck me profoundly for I had never realized that although someone could go to every planet,…

most people know, every key stroke on every device, including smartphones, computers, and even voice calls on phones, is recorded. In today's world, the only secrets are in people's heads. This is very similar to Winston, as he has many secrets, but Big Brother is always watching. Every television is tapped, every work station has a camera, and…

leaders, such as Stalin and Hitler, to symbolize “Big Brother” in this novel. Big Brother is one of the main characters in the novel who controls The Party and the people of Oceania. Orwell uses himself many ways as a basis for the main character Winston. Winston is against Big Brother and The Party, but acts as a civilized follower of The Party by following the daily routine along with his fellow…

Philosophy is the perpetual vortex of thought and the true substance of nightmares for many college students. A subject so grandiose, it attempts to define indefinable words like evil, morality, and love. Yet, philosophy leaves its own imprint on each human being, and each thing that human creates. John Gardner’s Grendel, a reimagining of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, features fundamental philosophical ideas running through its core. In Grendel, Gardner explores topics such as nihilism, atheism,…

totalitarianism of the government in Oceania. In Oceania the Party rules everything in the daily lives of the citizens. It is clear throughout the whole novel that the power that the Party has is unlimited. The leader of the Party, known only by the name Big Brother, can be found everywhere almost as a way to remind the people of who has all the power in their society. They constantly monitor their citizens and watch the main character, Winston, through telescreens. Even the history and the…

The big bang theory is often misinterpreted for what some may describe as the origin of the universe. However, this misconception actually informs us on how our universe was created in one single explosion, which is said to have happened approximately fourteen billion years ago.8 Everything that makes up who we are and what surrounds us started then, as an infinitely small volume that continued to expand in a ridiculously fast rate, where within a matter of minutes the universe became the size…

The Big Bang Theory is the current theory of the origin of the universe that has largely been accepted by scientists, however it is not one hundred percent correct as modifications of the theory is continuously being developed as new discoveries, observations and calculations are being made. In the beginning in the universe, there was nothing, no space, no matter, no light, no time and no sound. Then there was a sudden explosion of energy which we now call the Big Bang. But there was no BANG…

collision Winston has overall in the novel is, institutional. The reason being, Winston does not agree with big brother and the overall government that is sectioned off into parties where he lives. An example of his righteous feelings towards Big Brother is from a line in the novel saying, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (19 Orwell). In that specific quote, Winston is writing in his notebook timid that Big Brother…