Four Worlds

persecution of individual thought. In Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian world is depicted with a vision of hope for humanity, which consists of love and freedom, however, hope lies within the proletarian class in the novel and in today’s teenagers who need to become conscious that the party is totalitarian. 1984 presents us with a somber, tragic vision of the future where the government is completely totalitarian and freedom is abused. In an idealistic world…

George Orwell’s refusal to believe in the totalitarian government helped him to write award winning novels, brought a stronger voice for the people and opened the door to satire for other authors. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, Bengal, India, in 1903. As the son of a British civil servant, he spent his first Odays in India, where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in…

We don’t know what we’ll face out there, but whatever it is, it’ll be glorious. 13:49 New creatures, new world, new minerals, new ways of thinking. It will be marvelous. Another triumph for the human race, with me Sarwan Leandre at the head of it. 14:30 This is my final time recording before I go, I will return a hero. So dear diary, speak to you soon. Adventure…

warning” (Fromm 313). Despite Orwell creating the haunting dystopia of Oceania as a warning to humanity of our self-destruction, the world seemed to go blind to its recreation in South Africa. Britain colonized South Africa and created a white minority rule, just as Orwell depicts the Big Brother and the Inner Party running Oceania in 1984. Both Orwell’s Oceanic world and the South African government formed bigoted class systems with a small, minority rule to maintain their power. After power…

“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength” as well as the fact that the state of war and who it is with is constantly shifting.This is an essay about the four main characters; Winston, Julia, O’Brien, and Mr. Charrington. On a cold April day in 1984 in Oceania, the superpower in post World War ll. Winston Smith was employed as a records editor at the Ministry of Truth, drags himself home to Victory Mansions for lunch. Depressed and oppressed, he starts a journal of his…

because the result we consistent over the five years the survey is considered authentic. Next, isolated the date to understand who believes what. They created five different categories. Secret Cabal is a belief that a small secretive group control the world. Manichean is believing politics is a “struggle between good and evil” (Oliver and Wood, 2014). Supernatural phenomena is belief in the devil and angels and paranormal phenomena is believing in like ghost. Lastly, they created a category…

The four noble truth help me understand that life exists in a delicate balance and as humans we must learn to be our own master and strife for what is good rather than the mare pleasures of oneself. The book teaches us as humans to be a follower of truth and…

--“Text to World” Connection #1 Without World War II and the Totalitarian governments, it’s highly doubtful this book would even be a book at all. As most know, 1984 was a warning about what was to become of our future if it continued the way it was. In 1949, four years after World War II ended, Orwell published his book with the purpose of showing how Totalitarian Governments (Fascist, Nazi, Socialist) would control our society. They were known to use frightening techniques to control their…

Buddhism is a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in North East India in the 5th century BC. The main Buddhist teachings I will be discussing in this assessment are Four Noble truths and Eightfold path. The definition of suffering in Buddhism is the belief that all things are suffering, due to the desire to seek permanence or recognize the self when neither exist. Suffering comes in many forms. Three obvious kinds of suffering correspond to the first three…

“First Buddhist Women,” is a Therigatha book comprised of many poems describing how women of different caste found enlightenment through Buddhism. The written works in this books were once passed down orally and then finally written down in the first century B.C.E.. They center around the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, the man born into a Sakyan chief’s family who would become the Buddha. Gautama wished to seek a way out of suffering, birth, old age, and death. In his efforts he established a…