The Assault by Harry Mulisch, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and 1984 by George Orwell - discuss how the protagonists are controlled by outside influences that force them to confront their pasts and memories.
Wilmer, 1 In the three novels studied, The Assault by Harry Mulisch, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and 1984 by George Orwell, the protagonists are controlled by outside influences that force them to confront their pasts and memories. However, each character handles their memories in juxtaposing ways. While all three characters experience epiphanies towards the end of the novels, both constructive and damaging results come of their revelations. Orwell and Ishiguro choose to have their characters ignore the realizations they encounter to show how one's career or government influence can control a person's life. On the other hand, Mulisch creates a more positive outcome, having Anton face his past and grow from his experiences. Anton Steenwijk's life is altered after his family is murdered and the life he once knew was destroyed. Anton's present and future are controlled by the memory of his family and the loss of his innocence. Throughout his life after "the assault", his actions and decisions are unconsciously affected by his past. Anton's relationships with other characters are short-lived and unemotional. He brings a different girl home with him "every few weeks" (Mulisch, 97) but no real relationships ever come of these dates. He is not bothered by the fact that he does not form connections with other characters, in fact, "at times his couch remained
Analyse the importance of Winston and Julia's relationship in the novel. How does it contrast with the oppressive regime around them?
Question 1. Analyse the importance of Winston and Julia`s relationship in the novel. How does it contrast with the oppressive regime around them? In the novel Winston Smith was a quiet man in his late thirties , something of and intellectual , who nurses a secret hatred of the party in the face of the party continual alteration of document when he meet Julia he finds an outlet both for his heretical opinions and for the love he yearns to share with another human being. The Character of Julia in the 1984 is a young woman of 26 year old. She is very jealous of her apparent which devotion to the party that Winston suspects that she is a member of the thought police. Julia seems to follow Winston that Winston was thinking that maybe Julia also has a secret rebel love with Winston. Julia's view of life is very different from Winston she is not an intellectual given to long ruminations on the absurdity of the party and its society but she is gifted with a native intelligence that enables her to see something Winston does not. In many ways she is a contrast to Winston. She is young healthy .vibrant full of spunk and lust for life. They both shared the hatred for the party binds them with a tie they think nothing can break. Julia is arrested and moved to the ministry of love where she suffers the horrors of room 101 and is forced to betray Winston. Everything
Discuss Winston Smith's obsession with the past, focusing particularly on his quest for individual self-knowledge.
Discuss Winston Smith's obsession with the past, focusing particularly on his quest for individual self-knowledge. Orwell explores and highlights a number of Winston Smith's obsession with the past. Orwell particularly focuses on Winston's quest for individual self-knowledge, such as the paperweight or his craze with accumulating objects from the 'Golden country'. The paperweight fascinates Winston with its elegance. 'There was a peculiar softness, as of rain-water, in both the colour and the texture of the glass'. This suggests he has not seen anything so beautiful as this paperweight, so it encourages him to pursuit for even more striking objects. This may be due to the tedious life he lives. This also shows us the party has eliminated anything attractive and anything from the past, before Big brother. Winston tries to find out additional information about the Brotherhood, so he acquires 'the book'. 'When you have read the book, you will be full members of the Brotherhood'. This fascination Winston has with the Brotherhood may be because he wants to investigate the past (before the party). Winston is risking his life to obtain self-knowledge as he is questioning the Party's authority. The rhyme, 'St. Clements' is used by Winston to compare his knowledge with Julia's, O'Brien's and the old man's. 'That was a rhyme we had when I was a little boy'. Winston uses the
Originality.Being original is something which is terribly important to me. The reason being I am a twin. Non-identical and extremely different, yet still a twin. I hate being similar
Nick Livingston Originality I value original thinkers. Being original is something which is terribly important to me. The reason being I am a twin. Non-identical and extremely different, yet still a twin. I hate being similar. I think it somehow devalues me as a person. The world without originality is a world without intrigue and imagination. Unbelievably boring. That is not me and, hopefully never will be. What the world needs is new ideas, as old ones, however improved are basically the same. To progress as a human race, individual or group, originality is a necessity. It provides us with new technology, new ways of life and if, you are the the orginal thinker, a sense of importance and public appreciation. I didn't want to write this essay on bereavement, achievement or ambition. No No No. I wanted to break away from the structures "same old same old" essay writing. How better to do that than a personal reflective essay on originality? As mentioned previously my strive for originality comes from being a twin. From a very young age my brother and I were compared. Sometimes dressed the same. I found it unbearable. I see my "pro-original thinking" stance as a rebelling act so to speak. Making up for years of torment and rage building up inside of me. Not being able to express myself as an individual was hard. Now I can, so here I am! George Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty Four
Nineteen Eighty Four From the very beginning Winston and Bernard make them enemies of their society. These characters risk their lives to try and recapture what we take for granted today. Winston and Bernard try to keep their individuality and recapture through their jobs, and the way they live. Both 1984 and Brave new World show us that we must be careful to protect our ideas and way of life. Through the two main characters, Winston and Bernard, the authors show the readers that once tyranny takes hold reality and individuality are lost. Winston attempts to keep in his individuality through the apartment he rents. The apartment, which was rented from the owner of the antique store, is one way he makes himself different. The antique store owner could sense how Winston was different from the others, and he showed that when he said, "There's another room upstairs that you might care to take a look at." (81) Winston is instantly charmed by the rooms nostalgic look and furnishing.! At first it was, "a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as though of."(82) One thing that leads to him later renting the apartment is the fact that their is no visible telescreen. The owner told Winston the he never had one because, "Too expensive. And I never seemed to feel the need of it somehow."(82) In truth their was a telescreen behind the etching, which leads to the capture of
Nineteen Eighty-Four vs. Brave New World - Remind yourself of the following extracts…Compare and contrast the subject matter and style of these two episodes and consider their importance in the novels.
English: Nineteen Eighty-Four vs. Brave New World Jon Paul Dorrian U6 - 3 Remind yourself of the following extracts...Compare and contrast the subject matter and style of these two episodes and consider their importance in the novels Orwell's extract contains two separate elaborations of information. They are both narrated by Winston; the first being that the only hope of the Party being over-thrown is if the proles hold an uprising and revolutionise. The second is the lies that the Party spread, or more specifically the doctored truth that becomes the past. The style and language used by Orwell to put across this information is the same as how he writes the whole novel. His style is more intended for the more intellectual reader; "But simultaneously, true to the principles of double-think, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules" This example of 1984 shows that the average reader may have to re-read certain lines to fully comprehend the complexity of the environment in which Winston is contained; whereas in Brave New World (BNW) the readability level is higher as it puts most descriptions and dialogue in more simple terms; "A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year old men and women were too stupid even to do Epsilon work. And the process was an
Compare and contrast how Orwell and Huxley present Sexuality in '1984' and 'Brave New World'.
Compare and contrast how Orwell and Huxley present Sexuality in '1984' and 'Brave New World'. Sex and sexuality promote power struggles and the demise of the person or character when interwoven into a storyline. Two such novels that contain a focus on sexuality are that of Brave New World and 1984; both novels concern several characters that experience both the up side and the down side of sexual promiscuity. The given twist of both authors is that the characters all live in a totalitarian state; in 1984 the main character Winston, lives in a world where sex has been outlawed and made a crime; in Brave New World sexual promiscuity is very much accepted as a way of live. Both Orwell and Huxley use a variety of techniques to create stories powerfully illustrating worlds in confusion, contrasting worlds where sex is frowned upon or where it is smiled upon, through this the characters' sexuality is brought to the forefront of the readers mind, and we are able to see how the way the characters deal with sex and whether or not the decisions that take lead to their eventual downfall. Sex is an extremely powerful weapon and this is established very readily within both novels. In 1984 sex has been forbidden, people are brainwashed by Big Brother and the Establishment to live a mundane life, concentrating solely on worshipping Big Brother and working for Oceania. Even something as
Compare the Relationship and Characters of Winston and O'Brien
984 by George Orwell is a book that paints a bleak picture for the future world. Published in 1950, the book predicts that the world will be run by three totalitarian super states by the year 1984. The World is now divided into three major states. Oceania - where the story unfolds, Eurasia and Eastasia. These three Super states maintain a constant state of war with each other in order to use up the products of man power. They do this to stop the betterment of the individual, to stop people improving their way of life. This is one of the many ways the Government maintain their totalitarian states. Oceania represents America. Eurasia represents Russia & Eastasia represents China. Great Britain is part of Oceania; however it has lost its identity now being known as Airstrip One. Oceania's government, "The Party", is symbolised by "Big Brother". Big Brother is the all Seeing Eye "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU". Free thought is forbidden by big brother. It is not clear whether such a person as Big Brother actually exists, but he has a personality cult used by "The Party". Control is maintained by using "telescreens" that allow the "Thought Police" to watch any person at any time. Those who are caught committing "Thought Crimes" are regularly vaporised. 1984 is the way that George Orwell saw the world developing. Many believe that it is in fact a parody of the Communist
Comparison Coursework between an extract from The Colour
Comparison Coursework between an extract from The Colour Purple and 1984 For part of our Drama coursework we used an extract from a book by Alice Walker, called the colour purple. The content of this extract was quite emotional as the character in the extract is describing her deepest and darkest feelings about her and her husband in the extract. The character in the extract is called Netti, she is a woman and she lives with her partner Harpo; in the extract she describes Harpo to be a brutal and violent man, who beats her often. For another art of our drama coursework we also studied an extract from George Orwell's Novel 1984. The content of this extract was quite emotional and frustrating. The extract featured a man being questioned and tortured, the men were trying to brainwash the man in question; the man did not surrender to the torture in the beginning of the extract but as it moved on it became clear that the man in question was under excruciating pain. We do not know much about the man from the extract, but the men questioning him always refer to him as Winston. The men questioning him are trying to brainwash him into following the 'party.' To help us explore the character of Netti from the colour purple the whole class did an exercise called Role on the wall; this was basically outlining the characteristics of Netti that we knew from the text and writing them
Evaluate the Impact and Purpose of the final section of Nineteen eighty-four.
Evaluate the Impact and Purpose of the final section of Nineteen eighty-four The thought police captured Winston put in a room in the ministry of love with no windows and a big telescreen watching his every move. He realises that O'Brien has betrayed him. The final part of 1984 deals with the re-education of Winston until he loves Big Brother. Winston Smith is re-educated by torture, the torture happens in several phases. The first stage of the torture Winston describes as "preliminary" and he couldn't recall how many times he had been beaten, he was being beaten in order that he would confess to his crimes against the party. He thinks, "It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody" so that the torture might come to an end. This all makes you think how horrific this regime is and how treacherous they can be. It is putting you into Winston's shoes and everything that happens to him feels like it is happening to you at the same time and gives the maximum effect. The second stage of Winston's torture is with O'Brien himself and mostly is spent on the electrocuting rack. When this is happening there is always a man in a white lab coat standing in the corner as if he is doing tests on Winston and Winston is just another guinea pig whose life is meaningless. When O'Brien was torturing Winston, O'Brien would mainly talk about the party's strength and power over any