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Aug 29, 2010 17:42:01 GMT -5
Post by juandiegoalbuja on Aug 29, 2010 17:42:01 GMT -5
The novel 1984 takes place in London but not the London capital of England with the Big Ben and the Buckingham Palace. This London is a dirty London with the streets fill with Big Brother propaganda located in Oceania where there is a lack of everything including clothes and food.The place is depressive and dangerous and to make it all worst there is no place private sins the government is always watching and hearing everything. The things that stand out in the city are the big Minister buildings that are part of the government. The time in which this book is set is 1984 but is not the 1984 that we know is just a date sins it does not reflect any city or time in history, even thou it has some characteristics of government that during the late 30s and during the 40s use this type of totalitarian rule that made the lives of the Winston so depressive and annoying. Over all the city is horrible the government is oppressive and the people are unhappy and brainwash so it will not be nice to even think to live there. Juan Diego Albuja
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Aug 29, 2010 19:08:22 GMT -5
Post by juansebastian on Aug 29, 2010 19:08:22 GMT -5
The story of the book 1984 takes place In Airstrip One which is London and part of Oceania. The story takes place in 1984. Oceania is controlled by the Big Brother and appeares in every corner in London where are the Headquarters of the party that controlls everything. The environment in Oceania is a quiet environment most of the times except when there are the two minutes of hate. people are mostly quiet because they are controlled in every aspect of their lives. There are telescreeens that watch every movement they make. As a totalitarian government is what controlls them they are afraid of speaking for themselves so they mostly dont talk to anybody. The city is mostly destroid because they have being in a constant war with Eastasia and Eurasia. Also is a sad environment because everyone feels trapped, physicaly and psychologically, physically because of the monitors always watching and the ideas opposed. Psychologically because everyone is ruled by the ideas the Party gives them. Also there is and environment of hate between people and no one trusts no one because feel they are spies or from other party. In the case of Winston that is from the outer party feels affraid of the inner party. There is also this continuingly hatred against Emanuele Goldstein which is said to be the leader of the Brotherhood which is against the Party. The setting of this book is really important for the image Orwell wants to give to the audience because clearly expresses the Dystopian idea and how totalitarianis control people.
Juan Sebastian Perez
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Aug 29, 2010 21:42:05 GMT -5
Post by ariana on Aug 29, 2010 21:42:05 GMT -5
The novel 1984 takes place in Oceania in a small town which used to be London. They lived in a dystopia ruled by the head of the party Big Brother who was supported by the thought police. The party was divided in four: the ministry of love which is responsible for the law and order, peace are in charge of war, truth responsible of the mass media and plenty responsible of economics. They have minutes dedicated to hate. Since their is a war with Eurasia and Eastasia they need to be hatred. The community lives in an environment of fear since they are being guarded all the time. They are afraid of everything since the thought police will evaporate them if the oppose the party. They didn't have any memory of the past since it was altered by the party. If they find anything that remember them of the past then it had to be burned.This book has a fictional setting since this country and all the departments never existed.
Ariana Guerra
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Aug 29, 2010 22:18:15 GMT -5
Post by camilauribe on Aug 29, 2010 22:18:15 GMT -5
1984 takes place in London in a city called Oceania, were the environment is depressing and everything is related to war. There is violence and bombs exploding all around, people’s conditions are pretty bad-their clothes are shreds of fabric, the food is synthetic and everyone is poor. The buildings in this city have a poor appearance except for some giant pyramid-shape buildings that belong to the government. Apart from the physical setting of the book, Oceania is under a totalitarian government. This way of ruling is basically controlling every aspect of people’s lives. The government influence on people’s relationships, in how they spend every minute of their lives and even what they are allowed to say and think. Oceania has no history because the government has burned all the books and rewritten everything. The characters in the story feel oppressed and seen all the time. Meaning, there are giant posters in every corner of the city, with a mustached man face that says Big Brother is Watching You. There are also cameras and microphones, put by the Thought Police, in every house and out in the streets as well, this is the reason why the characters feel trapped. I think that if a totalitarian government is going to take over a city, there has to be limits. Human beings have the right to have a little privacy and microphones and cameras are violating their rights.
Camila Uribe
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Aug 29, 2010 22:52:29 GMT -5
Post by mponce on Aug 29, 2010 22:52:29 GMT -5
The setting where this novel takes place is in the city of London which belongs to Oceania. In this place they have a totalitarian government, which is ruled by Big Brother’s party. This party is divided in four ministries, the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and finally the Ministry of Plenty. Winston Smith is one of the members of the ruling party. The environment is full of fear, propaganda, and terror. People are always being watched by the party because there are telescreens all around the town. Wherever they go they can be watched by the thought police or by the spies, there is no privacy. The party is even able to control people’s language and history. In this case Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he changes dates or inventions from the history books for the willing of the party. The only language that they are able to use is called Newspeak, and there are certain words that are eliminated and forbidden so they can prevent any rebellion. There is also a crime called the thought crime, which means that anyone can have rebellious thoughts and if you do, you’ll be dead. Winston commits this crime, he lives with fear and he is always thinking how was the past and if life was better in those days. But Parsons has completely another point of view. He thinks that Oceania is perfect and that there is no war only peace. In my opinion I would hate to live in Oceania. I think all people need to have freedom of speech, and their own privacy. I believe that people need to follow some rule, but that rules need to be equal and fair. People need to have respect with each other, and live in an environment of peace, happiness and security. Maria Mercedes Ponce
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Aug 29, 2010 23:09:53 GMT -5
Post by vanessaalarcon on Aug 29, 2010 23:09:53 GMT -5
This novel takes place in London, in the superstate of Oceania. The people living in Oceania at this time were ruled harshly upon the beliefs of a party who wanted them all to agree with their principles. There had always been a constant war going on, which adds a violent atmosphere to the environment. Oceania is not safe, since bombs are being dropped all the time. There is no individuality between the party members. They are always being spied on, looked at and heard. The characters have no other choice than to act upon the party’s rules if they don’t want to be killed or tortured. If you commit any crime, even if you do it in the slightest way, you will be caught. People in Oceania live extremely harsh lives.
Vanessa Alarcon Borja
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Aug 29, 2010 23:30:21 GMT -5
Post by ateran on Aug 29, 2010 23:30:21 GMT -5
This story is happening on the year of 1984 on the city of London that forms part of Airstrip One, a place inside Oceania. Oceania is ruled under a totalitarian control in which habitants were controlled on all aspects of their life. The past has been modified to prevent other ways of thinking, and any chance of rebellion is banished. People are not allowed to express what they fell and the “big brother” as they call their leader makes sure anyone that thinks different or may represent any risk to their method of management is vaporized. The place is under constant war and decay. Oceania is in war with Eurasia and bombs are thrown constantly on the city. People live under poverty and bad conditions except for some important people of the “big brother” party that live under luxuries. I will hate to live in this place were everything is controlled and freedom is not present. You are always been watch and don’t have any privacy. Personally I would have tried to escape and go to Eurasia to seek for a new live and even die trying than living in that place. ALFREDO JOSE TERAN
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Sept 1, 2011 11:53:58 GMT -5
Post by camichiriboga on Sept 1, 2011 11:53:58 GMT -5
This novel takes place in the year 1984 being futuristic for the author that wrote it in 1948. So the setting is the through the authors perspective what 1984 was going to be like.The main character lives in Oceania where the book takes place but it also talks about two other areas called Eurasia and Eastasia with whom they are always at war with. This gives us the idea that the world was a place just full of wars that may of lead to a society filled of horror and sadistic humans. there are two classes of humans the normal ones like Winston who are controlled in all ways by the state. The state controls their work, their activities after work, what they do, what they think, and who they talk to. The other group is the Proles who are the low level people that are permitted to follow their old ways of life, their own beliefs and even their own religion if they have it.This was the group Winston had faith in to conserve the past and to find what happened before the overtake of the Brotherhood. The party didn't want anyone to feel emotions like happiness, depression, love and passion so they maintained a society in rules that didn't let them interfere between each other. As Winston describes the streets near where Proles lived were dirty and dark and full of corruption. In the squares there were always prisoners walking around and in the halls of the Ministry of truth there were tons of people in the halls. Another important part of the setting are the telescreens that were located in every room and all around the city to control and send messages to the people. This setting sets an age of no freedom and pure war. All people were brain washed into thinking that the party's ways of living were the best and were improving each year. Also the telesceens were the main way of controlling the society and maintaining humans under order. The setting is perfect to create a society powerless and oppressed as the author wanted to create for 1984. Camila Chiriboga
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