Here are the questions we've been mucking about with in class...
Other questions to work with:
“Adversity is a universal human experience that provokes a range of individual and collective emotions. What becomes evident through an exploration of the prescribed text is that our perspectives and human qualities determine how we deal with it.”
To what extent have you found this to be the case in your prescribed text?
“Literature through the representation of the paradoxes of the human experiences provokes the reader to question how complacency and blind acceptance can have far reaching consequences.”
To what extent have you found this to be the case in Nineteen-Eighty Four OR The Crucible?
One’s identity is ultimately shaped by their experiences and interaction with the wider world.
To what extent does your prescribed text explore this statement. In your response, make detailed reference to the text.
Things to read...
Things to watch...
^^^ Documentary on Orwell's life (i.e. CONTEXT!)
^^^ Totalitarianism in 1984
^^^ Overview of the novel and key ideas
^^^ Film representation of '2 Minutes Hate'
^^^ Thesis development advice
^^^ TED Talk on Orwell's influence on language and society