Tag: Nineteen Eighty-Four
3.7 Significant Connections – Dystopian Genre Study
This task is an extension of our Dystopian genre study. This is an opportunity to explore how the unifying elements of the genre are employed across different texts by different authors to form warnings about the future.
Practise Paper: 3.1 Extended Written Text – Nineteen Eighty Four
91472 Respond critically to speci ed aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence. 4 Credits. External
Nineteen Eighty Four – Preparing for “Critical Response” Assessment
Guidance supporting preparation of a critical review of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that is supported by assessment by New Zealand’s NCEA framework. NCEA English 3.1 AS91475
Literary Theories: Marxism
An introduction to Marxist criticism including a starting sample of ‘what Marxist literary critics do’
Literary Theories: Feminism
An introduction to feminist criticism including a starting sample of ‘what feminist literary critics do’
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Exploring the Text
How does Nineteen Eighty-Four help us to define the genre “Dystpian Literary Fiction”?
Nineteen Eighty-Four: How to handle a quotation
An exemplar demonstrating one way of producing the analysis required in relation to any self-selected quotation from the text.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Historical Context
Fragments of historical information to put into context the social/historical norms at the time George Orwell wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
Apple: You’ll see why 1984 won’t be like “1984”
This advertisement, aired during the Super Bowl in 1984 shows Apple’s advertising agency tapping into the Cold War anxieties about totalitarianism to present it’s new computer products. How does this ad appear to us now Apple has become one of the world’s largest multinational companies?
Nineteen Eighty-Four: What to do with a quote
Exploring different approaches we can take to expand on a selected quotation.