Nineteen Eighty Four essay topics

You are welcome to search the collection of free essays and research papers. Thousands of coursework topics are available. Buy unique, original custom papers from our essay writing service.

13 results found, view free essays on page:

  • Truman Show And Nineteen Eighty Four
    731 words
    The Truman Show and 1984 The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is a fictitious book that actually reveals many underlying truths about reality. Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Truman Show, and the world today have many similarities and differences which are good examples of the hidden realities of society. Orwell's novel presents a warning about a possible, but not inevitable fate for humanity. The Truman Show exemplifies the fact that we are not aware of when our privacy is being violated...
  • Nineteen Eighty Four Diversion And Co Option
    1,586 words
    NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR Essay Topic 1: What warning does the novel carry for readers at this point in time about where their society is heading? Introduction NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR's society carries a warning to our society about where we might be heading. However I believe that we are already at a parallel with the society in NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Taking the focus of the media it becomes very clear that our society is very similar to the one in NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR if to a lesser extent. Looking at ...
  • Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four
    1,366 words
    Having studied George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', I intend to discuss the type of Government envisaged by Orwell and to what extent his totalitarian Party, 'Ingsoc', satirists past regimes. I will also discuss Orwell's motive in writing such a piece and how his writing style helps it become clear. The main theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four concerns the restrictions imposed on individual freedom by a totalitarian regime. Orwell shows how such a system can impose its will on the people through ma...
  • O'brien S Flat Winston
    8,087 words
    The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ). Did Orwell realise quite what he had done in Nineteen Eighty-Four? His post-publication glosses on its meaning reveal either blankness or bad faith even about its contemporary political implications. He insisted, for example, that his 'recent novel [was] NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) '. (1) He may well not have intended it but that is what it can reasonably be taken to be. Warburg saw this im...
  • Orwell's Novels
    1,291 words
    1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard. He also sets forth the idea that the corrupted government will attempt to destro...
  • Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four
    747 words
    In 1949, the world was a substantially different place than it is today. Thirty-five years from now, in the year 2035, one can only imagine what changes will have taken place in society. Thirty-five years ago, in 1949, George Orwell's vision of the world as it would be in 1984 was horrific. Orwell describes his vision in his book Nineteen Eighty-four. "Nineteen Eighty-four depicts the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime of whatever type with great power and skill and force of imagi...
  • Novel Nineteen Eighty Four By George Orwell
    2,410 words
    The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is presented as a warning about a possible, but not inevitable fate for humanity. The society we live in can become the totalitarian state of Big Brother and the Party if we allow it. The abuse of power and dehumanization of mankind are two dangerous prospects. The purpose of this novel is to send the reader a message prompting them to take action in order to prevent this fate and save their society. Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning...
  • Nineteen Eighty Four Orwell
    2,213 words
    Animal Farm was written between November 1943 and February 1944, but was not published until August 1945, principally as a result of political objections that arose over the book's attack on Stalin and the Soviet Union. It was turned down by a number of publishers in England (including T.S. Eliot at Faber and Faber) and America. One American publisher rejected it because, he said, Americans were not in the mood for animal stories. Orwell, fearing implicit censorship and convinced of the urgency ...
  • Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four
    1,157 words
    George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is the ultimate negative utopia. Written in 1949 as an apocalyptic vision of the future, it shows the cruelty and pure horror of living in an utterly totalitarian world where all traces of individualism are being abolished. This novel was composed to denounce Hitlers Germany and Stains Russia and to create a warning to the rest of the world. It takes the reader through a year in the life of Winston Smith as he transforms from a rebel to a fanatic of totalitar...
  • Range Of Thought In Nineteen Eighty Four
    1,363 words
    Essay Question # 3: Compare And Contrast Submitted by: Serena Rogers # A 031489 Submitted To: Edith Farkas Course: Humanities: Knowledge & Authority Submitted On: December 10.02 "The Faces Of Idealism" by Serena Rogers Platonic Idealism is the view that ideas are independent of the thinking mind; existing incorporeally without sequence or co- existence, and that ideal forms (perfect ideas) exist eternally and absolutely. Plato thought that ideas were permanent and more real than material things ...
  • Aldous Huxley Nineteen Eighty Four
    2,096 words
    Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in England to two very refined parents, Leonard and Julia Huxley. Huxley's family possessed both scientific and literary fame throughout Europe. Young Aldous had big footsteps to follow. As a teenager, Huxley was enrolled in Eton, a legendary university. Soon he developed a bizarre eye disease which left him blind for over two years. This event dramatically changed Huxley, he now decided to become a writer instead of a doctor. Thinking his disease would effect beco...
  • Attribution Of Orwell's Characteristics Through Winston Smith
    2,307 words
    On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. ' (Orwell 4 "Nineteen'). George Orwell's 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...
  • Winston From The Novel Nineteen Eighty Four
    2,526 words
    In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, the authoritative figures strive for freedom, peace, and stability for all, to develop a utopian society. The Utopian society strives for a perfect state of well-being for all persons in the community, and over-emphasizes this factor, where no person is exposed to the reality of the world. As each novel progresses we see that neither society possesses family values nor attempts to practice them. Neither are passionate nor creative in...

13 results found, view free essays on page: