Discuss and illustrate how Orwell political and social views are shown by the choices of themes characters language narrative style in 1984 Comment on distinctive features of the novel Commenting on how effective you find it in warning about the dangers of totalitarianism Nineteen eighty four was released in 1948 It is a satire that depicts Orwells extreme perspective of a future controlled by totalitarianism In the novel the world is split up into three main super powers Oceania Eurasia and Ea
Todays Society is almost totally manufactured around children Children now have rights by law They have movies programmes and whole televisions channels dedicated to their life and entertainment Government money now pays for almost every child in the UK to get an education and also builds play parks and activity centres just for children This is a vast contrast with the Victorian era in which Charles Dickens lived Children did not get educated unless they were upper class they had little if no
In 1946 Priestley put pen to page and began to write a very important and meaningful play An Inspector Calls He set it in 1912 to give himself a very clever advantage over his very nave characters and a strong persuasive hold on his future audience too His characters were completely oblivious to the two devastating world wars ahead where as the audience were not which cleverly creates strong dramatic irony that brings the play to life He embedded himself into the play by becoming the character
Drinking Away Your Life As Ned journeys through the stream he discovered and named Lucinda things gradually get worse Ned goes through a change from realism to surrealism The use of alcohol consumption throughout The Swimmer helps demonstrate and show Neds drastic change from sanity to insanity John Cheever used events that happened to him such as his drinking problem to make a more realistic relatable story that allows more people to connect with While at a friends house Ned decides to swim hi
No one wants to live in a dystopia so people strive for a utopia like world Sometimes society tries too hard like having a string central government control too much technological control or just having excessive rules And so it ends up becoming the citizens worst nightmare These kinds of situations are what the novel 1984 and the movie Brazil deal with In 1984 and Brazil though both protagonists were in similar situations their characteristics and government bureaucracy contrasted greatly Thou
Elements of Romantic Comedies Romantic comedies have grown from everyday comedies to include very specific elements that distinguish them from the normal One of the main elements of romantic comedies is that the idea of love and its shift from the thought that women should love their husbands more than men love their wives as well as the belief that sex is something that the man should obtain whenever he asks for it because men are the bread winners of the home Instead romantic comedies are bas
The transformation of the Jane Austens novel Emma into the Amy Heckerlings teen pic Clueless involves changing the original text in to another medium set in a different context to allow a re assessment of the values present in the text thus enabling the audience to gain a greater insight and appreciation of the ideals and concerns outlined by Austin in Emma The themes presented by Austin in Emma are universal and timeless which enables Heckerling to adapt them to a context a modern audience can
How has the study of Emma and its appropriate clueless developed your understanding of how context influenced values Select at least 2 significant moments of Austens Emma and analyse how these moments are considered in order to create meaning in Heckerlings Clueless In your response focus on ideas context values and language HeckerlingsClueless 1995 is transformed through Austens 19thCentury novel Emma where the plot and characters have been transformed to suit Heckerlings context and contempor
Youthful Emma Woodhouse whose long time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr Weston takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself An old friend of the family Mr George Knightley does not believe her but in her certainty she decides that she must also marry off the young rector Mr Elton Among her friends and acquaintances in the large and populous village of Highbury she begins to notice young Harriet Smith the pretty ille
George Orwells Nineteen Eighty Four presents a negative utopian picture a society ruled by rigid totalitarianism The government which Orwell creates in his novel is ruled by an entity known as Big Brother and consists of three branches The Ministry of Truth overseeing the distribution of propaganda and other printed materials the Ministry of War the millitary unit and the Ministry of Love the law enforcement division make up the government The main character Winston Smith does not completely ac