- 6 page essay due 12/7/12 (check blackboard/the blog for more details)
- Bold inferences:
what constitutes a bold inference as opposed to a mild inference?
Bold -> supported by multiple sets of data
Mild -> supported by single set of data; “obvious”: inference relates directly to mode of analysis
Example of bold inference:1984 expresses Orwell’s anti-government sentiments using:
- the ministries
the functions/operations
the names
- professions
- character voices
Winston Smith himself expresses discontent of the government
- Brotherhood*
- self-accusing
- free market
*Brotherhood:
not supposed to know each other
follow orders to the letter, even if it results in death
members: O’Brien, so far just party members; no Proles
using tactics that the Party uses
appears to be a perpetuation of the principles that the Brotherhood seeks to overthrow
A different inference:
Perhaps Orwell isn’t discontent with government in general, but he is simply anti-Communist, or anti-corruption; other monkeys in the wrench.
Use of language
“The Proles are the future.”
vs
“If there is any hope for the future/revolution, it’s in the proles.”One way of writing is more poetic, more expressive.
The first sentence shows a more definitive meaning - assumes there is a future. The second sentence is more romanticized. Both show a different take on the future.
We then went over the prompts which consisted of 2 slideshows that offered images that our classmates thought represented 1984. Both represented the strict control that the government had over the development had over people, mentally and physically (in a confined space).
The last prompt discussed historical parallels between the events and things that Orwell depicts in his novel, and actual historical events that happened.
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