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26. Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Ideology of Hate
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Hatred and ideology play an important role in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. This essay aims to show that hatred not only is a core tenet of the Party’s ideology, but that it also guides the protagonist Winston Smith, motivating his rebellion. LÄS MER
27. Speaking about Newspeak - Teaching Democracy, Critical Thinking and Language through Nineteen Eighty-Four
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This essay presents how to use George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a literary intergrated project of teach democracy, critical thinking, English language skills and critical language study in the English 6 EFL classroom in upper secondary school in Sweden. This literary study is done through the lens of critical pedagogy with an emphasis on the way language influences power and helps dominant groups, in both the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as contemporary society, remain in control. LÄS MER
28. Human Rights in the Surveillance Society. A study of the similarities between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Western World today
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : The technical development which has taken place since George Orwell published his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has contributed substantially to the surveillance society in the Western World today. Although Western countries historically have supported their inhabitants right to privacy, modern technology is now used to diminish this right for instance in the fight against terrorism. LÄS MER
29. Big Brother is Watching You: Panoptic Control in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturSammanfattning : George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949, is a vision of socialism gone wrong. The setting of Oceania is a world ruled over by an oligarchical collective, “The Party,” which wields absolute power through a formidable combination of surveillance technology and the operation of the principles of “panoptic control,” a concept drawn from Jeremy Bentham’s model prison design of the late 1700s and revived by Foucault in the mid 1970s. LÄS MER
30. "The Internet is Watching You" - Why and How George Orwell's 1984 should be taught in the EFL classroom
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This essay will argue for why and also how the book "1984", by George Orwell should be used in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. Teaching authentic literature from various periods of time is an important part of the EFL education according to the syllabus for Swedish schools. LÄS MER