NESWSPEAK (1984 by Orwell) and today's Internet abbreviations-examples

 

NESWSPEAK and today's Internet abbreviations

SUP=What's up

BF=Boyfriend 

GF=Girlfriend

BTW=By the way

THNX= Thanks 

TGIF= Thank God it's Friday

LMK=Let me know

NGL=Not gonna lie

ISTG=I swear to God

GTG=Got to go

 

Themes 1984 Orwell

1984 - Themes

1984 Story and Analysis in 9 min (with Subtitle)

Video SparkNotes: Orwell's 1984 Summary

For discussion

• systems of control such as the Internet, the social networks (privacy is invaded)
• telephone and video surveillance
• digital store and availability of personal information
• state of permanent war
• demonisation of those perceived as other or foreign to the consensus culture
• government and big business control of mass media
• fake news
• increase in the use of Doublethink (humanitarian war, flexible labour, collateral damage)
• privatisation of public space
• soft totalitarianism of market forces
• over-organization
• reduction of problems to questions of statistics
• limitations on public assembly
• communication itself has been elevated to the level of an absolute value, irrespective of what is actually communicated
• language and thought areas are alterated by mass media slogans
• they are let in people's minds like Orwell's doublethink

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Connection with Orwell's themes

• the danger of propaganda
• the useless of any revolution by the masses
• the danger of the personality cult
• easy manipulation of the masses
• control of the language as a political instrument

1984 George Orwell Movie Trailer (1984)

How to recognize a dystopia

A short biography about George Orwell

George Orwell ⇒Pen name of Eric Blair

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Born in Bengal, INDIA, in 1903

His father's job⇨ CIVIL SERVANT for the BRITISH consulate.

His family moved to England, when he was young

Unable to get a scholarship, Orwell moved back to India and started working as an administrator for the Indian Imperial Police.

He did this job only for a few days, but soon he didn't like it anymore.

In England, he did lots of jobs and then he started writing professionally.

His first novels were: Out in Paris and London

                                   Burmese Days

An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist.

His socialist views began to make substantial in the wake of several worldwide events. He left for Spain where he fought for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists.. He talked about this experience in Homage to Catalonia (1938).

Then he served for the British in World War II as a correspondent and it was after this that he wrote Animal Farm, published in 1945. It is A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution.

In the 1940s he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.

In 1949 he published 1984, which soon became a bestseller. He died in 1950.
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1984 Story and Analysis in 9 min (with Subtitle)

Video SparkNotes: Orwell's 1984 Summary

Nineteen Eighty-Four - Official Trailer [HD]

Watch the trailer of the film 1984 and pay close attention to the images of the trailer.
Get into pairs and
1) Write down as many visual details (objects, people, actions, emotions) as you can remember
2) Discuss your personal reactions to the trailer. What surprised/pleased/upset/frightened.....you?
3) Complete with the missing words:
In 1984 George Orwell had a vision of _____________________________.
Today that vision is still_____________________________amd its prophecy remains as _____________________________ as ever.
If you want_____________________________of the future_____________________________, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a _____________________________  forever.
A future when _____________________________ becomes slavery, where  _____________________________ is forbidden, the past _____________________________ and where living people simply _____________________________ .
Yet one man and one woman _____________________________ to love.
What are your _____________________________ towards Big Brother?
I _____________________________ him
You must _____________________________ him. It is not enough to _____________________________ him. You must love him.
4) What kind of atmosphere does the trailer convey? Sinister, romantic, scary, fearful,horrifying....?