English - Advanced. This blog is aimed at advanced students and is intended to be an alternative source of information (other than the textbook and the photocopies provided by myself). This blog offers some extra material for further practice. It also contains some of the video-activities and podcasts that have been used in our lessons.
13 Apr 2015
1984
This is a very advisable book for you to read. At the beginning, some reviewers disliked its dystopian satire of totalitarian regimes, nationalism, the class system, bureaucracy, and world leaders’ power struggles, while others panned it as nihilistic prophesy on the downfall of humankind. Some still see it as anti-Catholic with Big Brother replacing God and church. From it the term Orwellian has evolved, in reference to an idea or action that is hostile to a free society. Yet, Nineteen Eighty-Four has proven to be a profoundly meaningful work and continues to be one of the world’s most widely read and quoted novels into the twenty-first century.