1984

#1

1984

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!

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#2

re: 1984

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?

#3

re: 1984

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

have you tried reading it?

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#4

re: 1984

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

#5

re: 1984

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?

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when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

#6

re: 1984

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

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Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline

#7

re: 1984

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

I read it back in 04.

Poor Winston.

#8

re: 1984

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

1984 is my favorite book of all time.

If you need help, PM me.

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"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

#9

re: 1984

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

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

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

#10

re: 1984

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.

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when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

#11

re: 1984

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.

#12

re: 1984

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

#13

re: 1984

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

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Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline

#14

re: 1984

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

That's so weird.

#15

re: 1984

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

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

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"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

#16

re: 1984

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.

#17

re: 1984

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.

#18

re: 1984

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

#19

re: 1984

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.

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'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

#20

re: 1984

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.