Category: george orwell

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+ appalachia, dystopian, george orwell, lark ascending, silas house

“It’s easy to convert people through fear”: The Role of Fear in Silas House’ “Lark Ascending”

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Over the past year, I have been participating in a local book club. Even though I have not been able to make all of the events, I have still read the novels, and this year I read some books that I may not have read if it were not for the book club. One of these books was Judy Blume’s Wifey, “an adult novel” that Blume … Read More “It’s easy to convert people through fear”: The Role of Fear in Silas House’ “Lark Ascending”

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+ 1984, george orwell, jonathan rose, katharine burdekin, last and first men, nineteen-eighty four, olaf stapledon, swastika night, winston smith, yevgeny zamyatin

The Written Text in George Orwell’s “1984”

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Note: During my first year as a PhD student, I took a class on utopian and dystopian literature in Britain. The class looked at authors such as Thomas More, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, P.G. Wodehouse, and others. For the course, we had to write brief responses (2-3 pages) to the novels and discussions. Recently, I came across some of these responses and thought I … Read More The Written Text in George Orwell’s “1984”

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