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  1. 1. Recreating the aesthetic experience of Orwell’s book nineteen eighty four as a Tabletop roleplaying rule set : A systemic perspective on rules as the aesthetic space in Oceania 2084

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Författare :Johan Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :tabletop roleplaying games; abstraction; game design; design process; semiotics; iterative design; aesthetics; symbols;

    Sammanfattning : By examining the results of an iterative design process, specifically a tabletop roleplaying game, Oceania 2084, this thesis aims to formulate a generalizable design process applicable when translating a work of fiction into a ruleset. The object that was translated into a ruleset was the book Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell in 1949. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Nature as an uncontrolled space in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World'

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Jonna Hugsén; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This paper suggests that dystopian fiction should receive more attention within the environmental advocacy space. Despite the genre’s ability to provoke the reader, it is rarely interpreted in an environmental context. LÄS MER

  3. 3. A Dystopian View of Women: How a Freudian reading of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four can be used in Swedish EFL classrooms

    L3-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Daniel Pettersson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :psychoanalytic literary criticism; Sigmund Freud; EFL; Nineteen Eighty-Four; George Orwell; literary criticism; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This essay shows how Freudian psychoanalytic literary criticism can be used to analyze representations of what could be called literary characters’ unconscious, i.e. their thoughts and dreams, to attempt to determine and explain their view of women. The analysis serves as an example of what EFL teachers can focus on regarding Freudian criticism. LÄS MER

  4. 4. “Where you think no one sees you – do what you want!” : Nineteen Eighty-Four and Upper Secondary School Students’ Perception of Surveillance

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Tobias Svensson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :George Orwell; surveillance; panopticism; post-panopticism; student perspective; EFL;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to juxtapose students’ perceptions of surveillance to the surveillance portrayed in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. By using Michel Foucault’s expansion of Jeremy Bentham’s discussion of the Panopticon, this essay shows that upper secondary school students modify their behaviour, like the characters in the novel, when they are under surveillance. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Författare :Spencer Whiskard; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Internet; Surveillance; Article 8; Right to Privacy; Technology; ECHR; ECtHR; IPA 2016; Investigatory Powers Act 2016; Hacking; Data; Digital; 1984; Freedom; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. LÄS MER