1984

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:54pm

anyone an expert when it comes to this george orwell novel? I need to write an essay on how it rekates to gay marriage today for my english class
any kind of help is much appriciated!

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:55pm

I never thought 1984 had to do with gay marriage.
You could pull something from Big Brother's intolerance to anyone's ideas but his?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:56pm

have you tried reading it?

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:57pm

Well, the subject matter doesn't appear in the book. So you better try to wildly interpret the book. Surely some connection can be made. Just stay very much generalising

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:57pm

oh, but papa, why do that when you can ask others who have read it to do your work for you?

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:58pm

i read the book, very thouroughly,
it does have to do with gay marriage because you can relate back to Winston and Julia's "forbidden relationship" and how just sex in general is frowned upon and how everything must be uniform.... i just need a little more ideas

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:58pm

I read it back in 04.

Poor Winston.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:59pm

1984 is my favorite book of all time.

If you need help, PM me.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:59pm

i'm sorry, zone, i forgot. forgive me?

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:00pm

I read it back in like Middle school in like 98 and aain in 00 and again in 03.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:00pm

Yes, it deals with all sort of things, Emie. But NOT with gay marriage, sorry *lol* As I said, do jump to conclusions, many are possible, but the book itself has a different subject matter.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:01pm

Wikipedia has a pretty indepth article.
And I don't think their love is any more forbidden than free will is.
Click Here

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:06pm

well i'm sorry but thyis is what our teacher wanted us to write about.... don't blame me

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:08pm

That's so weird.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:08pm

If you need help, PM me. 1984 is my favorite book of all time.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:42pm

This is one of my favorite books as well. This really doesn't strike me as a tough assignment... just focus on the infringement on personal freedoms in both cases and the powers that be feeling threatened by individualism/deviation from the status quo. The anti-sex, period, stance of the government is also relevant, but you have to look into the reasoning behind it. Beyond that, you're on your own.

[kelzama]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:28pm

And to think, way back in the dark ages, we just thought of it as an anti-big government, anti-socialist novel.

Just goes to show you can prove just about anything given the right political climate of the time.

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:57pm

I think the dieas you have are good, just elaborate on them. Just explain as thoroughly as you can. When I write papers, I usually have three or four main points that I just explain the hell out of and it turns out fine.
I have mastered the ways of bull****ting a paper ;P

[wexy]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:54pm

At midnight on 12/31/83, the radio played David Bowie's "1984" as that year was born.

Freedom is Slavery.

[Patronus]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:13pm

If you need help, PM Iheartmygeek. 1984 is her favorite book of all time.

She said so.

Twice.