Research proposal THE PARTY HEGEMONY AND SURVEILLANCE IN GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR [pic] submitted by: Rudi Fitrianto G1A006164 NATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PROGRAM DEPARTEMENT OF HUMANITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN UNIVERSITY PURWOKERTO 2012 1. Title of the research The Party Hegemony and Surveillance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 2. Field of the study
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George Orwell was a novelist who opposed communism through his writing‚ as can be shown by his most famous works‚ Animal Farm and 1984. The former reflects the developments in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution‚ whereas the latter depicts life under totalitarian rule. Having witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian governments in Spain and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase their power‚ Orwell wrote 1984 to alert Western nations about the approaching
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looking at any options around us. It may mean you have to make a decision for a big group or have to make a decision for yourself; in this case‚ both of those options weren’t good ones for the man who killed the elephant. In “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell narrates a story about his experience as a police officer in Burma that had killed an extreme elephant. Being British in a Burmese community made his perspective of a police officer a little different. He was hated by the Burmese community and
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A Hanging 1. George Orwell’s writing "A Hanging" provides his firsthand account of the hanging of a Hindu man who represents the last moments of natural life. a. The significant observation i. The man‚ on the way to the gallows‚ deliberately avoids a puddle in order to insure that his feet do not get wet. 1. Orwell found this to be very interesting ii. The man shows how he is still conscious and a living creature 2. Therefore‚ Orwell’s theme revolves around the inhuman nature of the extraction
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attitude does Orwell identify as an impediment to the improvement of language usage? 2. In the second paragraph‚ locate and quote Orwell’s complete thesis. 3. Show that after Orwell clarifies his thesis with a number of examples‚ he uses a problem/solution structure to organized the essay. 4. In the interaction between thought and language‚ which element does Orwell believe must predominate? Why? 5. Identify each of the four main “language tricks” Orwell lists. In a
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell Throughout history‚ writers have written about many different subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal‚ India in 1903 to an English Civil Servant and died in 1950. He attended Eton from 1917 to 1921‚ and served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 before moving
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“How To Watch Your Brother Die” written by Micheal Lassell is an interesting poem‚ though it reads like a short story. It is written almost as a guide to several different things. The main character is a straight man seeing a different lifestyle‚ that he had shut out‚ for the first time. The first time really seeing what other people‚ though gay‚ still human beings‚ have to go through to live in our society. A society that he has helped make into what it is. He is also a man watching his brother
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How to die (1886-1967) Siegfried Sassoon I believe that this poem is about the pain and suffering that Siegfried felt during the war. This poem says about the good old days for him when there was peace and quiet. Where there is no blood and pain. He talks about how the enemies made them suffer and how he hated them for killing him and therefore it shows that he was in the war when we were losing. He talks about how when he a killed a man he felt he was finally at peace probably because he was
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How to Watch Your Brother Die Michael Lassell portrays himself as a straight man in his poem “How to Watch your Brother Die.” In reality he is a 21st century gay poet. The poem tells the story of a man‚ this being the straight narrator‚ who is called across the country to visit his brother as he lies on his deathbed. Later in the poem we learn the dying brother is suffering from HIV‚ and had been disowned by his brother because of his homosexuality. As the poem goes on‚ the narrator creates a unique
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George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical allegory through which he presents his cynical view of human nature. He uses the animal fable effectively to expose the issues of injustice‚ exploitation and inequality in human society. Orwell uses the allegory‚ Animal Farm‚ to present the story of The Russian Revolution and essentially express his opinions on the matter. By plainly exposing the unjust and corrupt system that is communism‚ Orwell is ultimately presenting his pessimistic view of human
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