Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
It’s hard to tell about the setting of this novel, 1984, since they don’t really talk about it. All Orwell talks about is how Winston lives and survives in this cruel, mean, bad society. Also, there weren’t a lot of descriptions in this novel about the setting. But there was one thing the book mentioned strongly and repetitively while explaining about the society where Winston is living in, Totalitarianism. It’s hard to describe where he lives, but one thing we know is about the telescreens. This novel's setting is in London, England. It's just a normal city but have telescreens everywhere we go. Telescreens are used to see the people where they go, what day do for Big Brother; it looks like televison, but the size is smaller. Telescreens symbolize that Winston is not free and he is stuck in the city. I think that place is interesting because we don't have telescreens in our society and when I think about having the telescreens, it would be so uncomfortable since the president will know what I am doing every moment even when I go to the restroom. I think Telescreens are a good device to know how the society is like in this novel based on the function of the telescreens. I think the author did a good job on not describing the setting in detail, but pointing out only the important and useful parts for the story. I really liked the way Orwell wrote described about the telescreens; it was disturbing, but memorable.
It’s hard to tell about the setting of this novel, 1984, since they don’t really talk about it. All Orwell talks about is how Winston lives and survives in this cruel, mean, bad society. Also, there weren’t a lot of descriptions in this novel about the setting. But there was one thing the book mentioned strongly and repetitively while explaining about the society where Winston is living in, Totalitarianism. It’s hard to describe where he lives, but one thing we know is about the telescreens. This novel's setting is in London, England. It's just a normal city but have telescreens everywhere we go. Telescreens are used to see the people where they go, what day do for Big Brother; it looks like televison, but the size is smaller. Telescreens symbolize that Winston is not free and he is stuck in the city. I think that place is interesting because we don't have telescreens in our society and when I think about having the telescreens, it would be so uncomfortable since the president will know what I am doing every moment even when I go to the restroom. I think Telescreens are a good device to know how the society is like in this novel based on the function of the telescreens. I think the author did a good job on not describing the setting in detail, but pointing out only the important and useful parts for the story. I really liked the way Orwell wrote described about the telescreens; it was disturbing, but memorable.
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Thinking that people can't have their privacy is very insulting! Just think, if there were lenses of telescreens going with you with everystep that you take. The president can check on you anytime what your doing, and there could be harsh punishments for any kind of act you do. One minute you might be walking down the street, and next moment, the persient could be there infront of you to talk to you.
With the telescreens, there would be no secrets in the world. The problem is that even though there would be no harmful secrets, positive secrets will not be able to exist.I totally agree with you that it would be so uncomfortable with the telescreens everywhere in our life.
Wait, I spelled president wrong in one of the sentences. *^^*Oppsss...sorry:)
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People thinks that people can't have there privacy, that statment is kind of true, because i see those exprience
People thinks that people can't have there privacy, that statment is kind of true, because i see those exprience
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Your entry is very nice and it has a lot of detailed things telling me. I like that when you discovered a theme that's called "totalitarianism". It's difficult to know even a meaning of the big word,"totalitarianism". I want to see more about the setting which you couldn't find in the book. Also I couldn't find them all, so I hope we can find them together :)
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I think you are all right. What is quite marvellous about this book is that it was really futuristic in that being written in 1949 before global TV, really makes it a visionary piece of work. Mrs.Mc.
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