DW’s for the Wee Fish

Consider Anne Rice’s statement and discuss her claim in a paragraph or two. Connect your response to 1984.

In one or two well developed paragraphs connect the statement below to the way The Party manipulates the

thoughts of its people.

Use the picture below as inspiration for a free-write that develops the themes

presented in 1984.

Write a serious story in which you use at least 4 of the words of newspeak described below:

good, plusgood, doublegood, doubleplusgood, ungood, plusungood, doubleplusungood

Create a well constructed response to the statements below as you think they relate to 1984.

What would happen if Winston were to “throw away the key”?

Consider Foucault’s statement. Does he imply that power reduced to its ideal form is good or bad? Explain.

The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a single watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether they are being watched or not. Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all

times, effectively controlling their own behavior constantly. The name is also a reference to Panoptes from Greek mythology; he was a giant with a hundred eyes and thus was known to be a very effective watchman.

Write about how the statement below relates to the ideas of freedom,

community, and the purpose of mankind.