Conformity means giving in to group pressures. Everyone is a a member of one group or another and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. Fear of humiliation can lead to conformity. People agree with others because they fear being ridiculed, or being isolated from the gro...
1984 Reflection 3: Pages 200-298 In 1984, Orwell begins with three paradoxes: war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. ... Orwell uses the slogan "war is peace" to convey the terrible exploitation of people in his society. As Winton watches the telescreen, it broadcasts a story of a victory in India, after which it stated that "the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grams to twenty" (28). ... The war is used as a buffer against any unhappiness which could result from the decreased chocolate ration. ... Here, it appears that the war can be use...
He wanted to satire what was going on at the time with wars and to denounce communism as well. ... Orwell also uses large bolded statements to get a point across, for instance "WAR IS PEACE," is one of the ridiculous statements that the inner party wants the citizens to believe. ... Although blurred images, Winston remembers chocolate from the past and how his mother used to give it to him. ... Orwell is qualified to write this book because he has encountered a lot of political issues in his day, along with being in a war. ... The qualifications that I found (not in the book) were that he was ...
After the Spanish war Orwell's writing changed but not as much as he thought, he said, "In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive bodes, and might have remained almost unaware of my 2 Political loyalties." Without the experience of the Spanish Civil war, Orwell wouldn't have written Animal Farm and 1984. ... He could only remember the World War, after the World War the country was taken over by the party. ... For example Big Brother promise that the chocolate rations will not go down but they did, so Winston has to rewrite the old article. ...
Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. ... After seeing their struggles, he began to take an active political part, and when the Spanish Civil War he joined Ernet Hemingway and others in going to Spain to take part. ... There he wrote the book, Homage to Catalonia, describing his experiences in the war and his reactions to the soviet betrayal. Shortly after the Second World War broke out, and Orwell signed up to fight but was judged unfit to serve, so he joined the BBC and worked in the Indian section as well as serving in the home guard. ...
