1984 movie trailer quotes

These are quotes that relate to parts of the 1984 movie trailer.

Dystopian Novels

"Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by a focus on mass poverty, squalor, suffering, or oppression. Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world." This here is a definition of Dystopian Fiction from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopian_novel#Dystopian_fiction

During the first chapter, George Orwell created a World in which they are constantly under watch by someone which they named Big Brother. If found that it was extremely Dystopian as when the main character of this novel (Winston), returns back to his house after a days work in the Government, finding posters covered all of his house reading "Big Brother is Watching You". The novel 1984 instantly gave me the feeling of Dictatorship in Winston's life.

Throughout the chapters, winston writes in his diary of how he would like to be free from the world that he lives in, however this is not too great as if he is caught with this and it is read, he will be killed. In other words he is giving himself more work.

Passive Active

1. Active: Big Brother is watching you
    Passive: you are being watched by Big Brother

2.Active: Mr Wayman was teaching the third form
    Passive: The Third Form are taught by Mr Wayman

3. Active: I am sorry for what has happened
    Passive: For what happened, i am sorry

4. Active: Riordan was playing rugby at Shrewsbury House
    Passive: At shrewsbury House, Riordan was playing rugby

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

 You are being watched as much as CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom by the mysterious Big Brother.

IT WAS A BRIGHT COLD DAY IN APRIL

On this wet cold Spring day in the so called flabbergasted month of April, the sun was creating a golden path on the path in the park.


Reflection:

Orwell was suspicious of language that broke his five rules. It would seem, from our examples, that when these rules are broken, the piece of writing, slowly decreases in quality and the emphasis of some words lose it. It can also be confusing as there are times when things may be repeated or it may just be too long to understand. In a book such as 1984 where it is quite a go getting book, the whole book would just be destroyed as again it would lose all of its emphasis.

Orwells six rules of writing

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.   

http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/300

Orwell's 1984 compared to our everyday life

ORWELLIAN

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/17/293986/us-policies-kafkaesque-orwellian/

 An intelligence official warning political changes of US administrations

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-03/11/politics-election-cameron-miliband-gordon-brown

How this famous quote will affect elections

http://www.thenewage.co.za/86983-1024-53-Orwellian_speak_is_on_the_biscuit_even_today

Talks  about  how todays life is like Orwellian life with low employment rates and economic depression

The prevalence of Orwell

Orwell’s 1984 continues to reverberate in modern culture, decades after it was first written. The word Orwellian, was used in a news article just yesterday. It been mentioned hundreds of times over the past months.  Of course it is always used for political purposes, such as in one article was saying how a former American intelligence official has warned against the political maneuvering of successive US administrations for manipulating classified information to tighten their grip on the executive power.  In this it talks about many things that were not allowed to be said, this refers back to 1984 as people cannot have their own voice as constantly being watched by telescreens. Thoughtcrime is thought as completely wrong today as it was in the book 1984, an article from Nevada states how a criminal should not be motivated by “hate”.  A recent article that I found states how ‘Big Data’ is the next Big Brother. These days, there is so much information about every person in the world, even normal people like us sitting in the class today, stored all over the internet or any other sources that there may be. You could say that our lives today are very much alike to those in 1984. CCTV is spread all around the UK meaning that we are constantly being watched/listened to which is absoloutley no different to George Orwell’s 1984 where they are constantly being watched by telescreens. Orwell’s book has changed the  way that we think today with many people now having different views about not just political purposes but every day life situations that there are.

 Above: A photo of an example of constantly being watched.

Julia's Perspective

I know we are doing something dangerous. We first crossed paths when I embarrassingly fell over before him and the loving man that he is, generously helped me up. I did not expect this and then handed him a note saying 'I love you'.

I tried to sound casual so replied saying "Thanks Comrade" as he later picked up the note.

 Not soon after, I noticed him at lunch and he came over sitting opposite me. I whispered into his ear "go to the big statue as many people will be there." Later on I met him at this place and told him where to go on Sunday and he then mentioned that he had understood.

 On Sunday, he turned up and we very much enjoyed ourselves in the woods. In my opinion, we both enjoyed it as we finally had some freedom and that I had found someone like him.  We were then meant to leave but we didn't want to so we stayed. We talked for a while and I told him many things that he had never expected me being like before our chat then we embraced together in the woods. We liked the thought of going against the rule that party members couldn't have any sexual relationships.




WORD COLLPASE

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Part 1 Conclusion

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

By the end of part one, the reader has been introduced to Orwell's horrifying dystopia. We have learnt how the people are constantly being told lies by Big Brother and all of the people are naive enough to believe every word they said. For example, the chocolate ratios were lowered, however Big Brother told everyone that they had increased. Near the end of part one, we were shown how pleased people of airstrip one were to find places that were not under surveillance as they could finally be themselves and alone without being watched. Winston explores the prole district in the last two chapters and he realises the difference between this district and the minors. He describes the prole district as "animalistic, filthy and impoverished" but did also like the thought of how they had much more freedom in the Prole district than he does in the Minor district with his job.

http://www.ministryofiles.com/1984.pdf - Pdf reading of 1984
http://archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-Book - link to Audiobook reading of 1984

Reading Routine:

	Ch.	pages	Sample activities
Part 1	1	3 – 22	Week 1 1.     Setting up blog: site for journal and all classwork / preps 2.     What do we know about Nineteen Eighty-Four today? 3.     Starting to read 4.     Characterisation 5.     Orwell’s use of language to create setting
	2	22 – 31
	3	31 -39
	4	40 – 50
	5	51 – 66
	6	66 – 72
	7	72 – 84	Week 2 1.     Updating blog 2.     Analysis of a key paragraph: style 3.     Reader’s expectations 4.     Manuscript studies 5.     Totalitarian regimes
	8	85 – 107
Part 2	1	111 – 123
	2	123 – 133
	3	133 – 143
	4	143 – 154
	5	154 – 163
	6	164 – 167	Week 3 1.     Updating blog 2.     ‘A Capsule in Time’ tie-in: dystopian fiction
	7	167 – 174
	8	174 – 186
	9	186 – 227
	10	227 – 234
Part 3	1	237 – 251
	2	251 – 273	Week 4 1.     Updating blog 2.     Reviews: character, plot, moral 3.     Pastiche / transformative response 4.     Archive: Orwell at Wellington 5.     Present blogs
	3	273 – 287
	4	287 – 295
	5	295 – 300
	6	300 – 311
Appendix		312 - 326

Nineteen Eighty-Four serialised on Radio 4

Resources on Orwell from The Guardian

The Orwell Prize: super archive site

Lessons:

·       Week A: 25 Feb – 3 March: 2 Lessons

·       Week B: 4 – 10 March: 3 Lessons

·       Week A: 11 -17 March: 2 Lessons (1 for ‘Capsule in Time’)

·       Week B: 18 – 22 March: 3 Lesson