George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale are both novels in which the state‚ namely Oceania and Gilead‚ attempts to exert totalitarian control over the lives of its peoples. Through Orwell and Atwood’s subsequent portrayal on the ensuing dystopias we are clearly able to see the respective states desire to control love and emotion‚ which are considered undesirable distractions‚ as a means of achieving the totalitarian control that they so desire. It is thus in
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How does the opening chapter of The Handmaid’s Tail introduce the main ideas of the novel? One of the main themes in the novel is that of hierarchy. This is demonstrated in the first chapter‚ through the violent and animalistic imagery of “electric cattle prods” carried by the Aunts “slung on thongs from their leather belt(s)”. This immediately hints to the reader that the women are being kept in the gymnasium by force. Another theme displayed in the first chapter is regime. The description in the
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were a series of accusations of witchcraft towards older women. This took place between 1692 and 1693. As a result‚ many innocent people were executed. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is an example of what partially happen in the Salem Witch Tails using real names and real events in his play. The Crucible is mainly about the innocent people who lost their life’s from an injustice way and conflicts between peddling guilty or not guilty for serving to the devil. The reason Miller wrote the Crucible
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Once the experiment was over the results showed that the head end was able to retain the learning by classical condition better than the tail end could. There were more positive reactions with the head compared to the tail. It was not a drastic difference‚ but the head it was able to retain the learning slightly better than the tail end did. Not everything goes as planned so there were some experiment where the planarian was lost or it died. Some planaria did not retain the information before it
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How did the Gorilla lost its tail and got its strength A long time ago‚ about 100 years‚ the first Gorilla that had ever walked the earth actually had a tail believe it or not. His tails made him stand out in the jungle. The Gorilla was called Kong and Kong was real wonderful friends with an old wise turtle named Jim. Jim was always the one who knew everything; because every time Kong had a question Jim will always have an answer. Now there is no telling how Jim came to be or how he ended up meeting
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War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. The party slogan of Ingsoc illustrates the sense of contradiction which characterizes the novel 1984. That the book was taken by many as a condemnation of socialism would have troubled Orwell greatly‚ had he lived to see the aftermath of his work. 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism and state sponsored brutality driven by excess technology. Socialist idealism in 1984 had turned to a total loss of individual freedom in exchange for false
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Dystopian Societies The government in Huxley’s Brave New World and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale‚ both use different methods of obtaining control over people‚ but are both similar in the fact that These novels prove that there is no freedom in dystrophic societies when the government controls everything including individuality in order to keep their societies the way they want it to be.In both societies the individuals have very little and are controlled strictly by the government. In Handmaid’s Tale
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Chapter 7 1) How does the scene with Moira in the past contrast to the narrator’s present existence? Offred’s flashback to her time student times with Moira highlights a direct comparison to the amount of freedom she had. Not only under others but also in time as well as having the choice of many options including clothes and behavior. It is also clear that both Offred and Moira had not a care in the world‚ there was no worries about being caught with a cigarette or not doing their work. Whereas
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Past and present‚ Offred’s peers play a huge role in how she narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. In the last few chapters of this reading‚ Offred encounters her old friend‚ Moira‚ who is now working as a prostitute at a secret club. In the times before biblical religion was the only form of governance‚ Moira was described as a fiery and rebellious woman‚ who was always there for Offred. While in the center‚ she teaches Offred how to care for the other women and keep her wits about her during this horrific
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NEWSPAPER BUSINESS MODEL: LONG DISTANCE MEETS THE LONG TAIL BY GEORGE SYLVIE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN MARCH 24‚ 2008 AUSTIN‚ TEXAS 1 ABSTRACT Developing an Online Newspaper Business Model: Long Distance Meets the Long Tail This literature review cum strategic proposal connects two concepts – Chyi and Sylvie’s notion of long-distance online newspaper audiences and Anderson’s long-tail statistical Internet economic model – into an approach
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