The Western Literacy Canon holds great value for contemporary adolescent readers and all people in general. It's an integral aspect of education for adolescents because: it represents the greatest thinkers of the past two thousand years, it traces changes in society and paralleling this; the co...

George Orwell: A writer of figurative language One of the extraordinary writers that wrote with figurative language in modern day literature was George Orwell. He used many different forms of figurative language including: personification, similes, and metaphors. He used this form of wri...

"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should ha...

Political Views in George Orwell's "1984" The main theme of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" concerns the restrictions imposed on individual freedom by a totalitarian regime. George Orwell shows how such a system can impose its will on the people through manipulation of the press,...

In order to be able to comprehend the world of 1984, one has to use the concept of doublethink, since the process of assimilating a truly fictional world involves believing in something that is at the same time nonexistent but possible and imminent. Many of the things that we find in Orwell's novel,...

1984 The terrors of a totalitarian government presented in George Orwell's 1984 apply not only to the Party, but also to the Stalinist Russia of the 1930's. Frightening similarities exist between these two bodies which both started out as forms of government, and then mutated into life-controlling p...

The Affects of Social Backgrounds on SocietyThe heroic epic has been a favorite plot for writers since Babylonian times. The stories all consist of similar aspects. There is a hero who is the main character and the protagonist in the story. The plot focuses on the hero and his/her struggle to ove...