FREE ESSAY ON 1984

1984

1) How long do you practice? Where? When? 
2) How do you prepare for games?
3) What's the best part of being on the team? 
4) How do y'all bond? 
5) What do you do during the class? 
6) Why did you decide to join the team? 
7) What qualifications do you need to meet to be a part of the team? 
8) What's your favorite part of the games?
1984
Synopsis 
Published in 1949, Ninety Eighty-Four is Orwell's terrifing vision of a totalitarian
future. Its hero, Winston Smith, is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies
records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free
themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal. 
Reviews
Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street
little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun
was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the
posters that were plastered everywhere. 
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One. 
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with
one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon
current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war
with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia
and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of
Truth involves the constant correction of such records. 'Who controls the past,' ran the
Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' 
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the
Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the
simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the
world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and
narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that
alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human
pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair,
Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The
Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia,
he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. 
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of
words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary.
More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious
world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is
always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche 
Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of
totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three
perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book's hero, Winston Smith, is a
minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads
him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded
woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment,
torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make
him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity.
Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his
contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its
coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses. -The
Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
This book sounded extremely interesting to me from these reviews. A picture of something
like this is very thought provoking. I would really like to know more of this
hypothetical world, much different than it is today. I believe this book will satisfy my
interests. That is why I chose to read 1984.
9) What do you do during practice? 
10) What's the best thing about your coach?
11) What was your favorite game and why?
12) Who are your biggest rivals & why?
Bibliography
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