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Video SparkNotes: Orwell's 1984 Summary
VideoSparkNotes ^ | 8/2/21 | George Orwell

Posted on 08/02/2021 6:10:21 PM PDT by Vision

If you've never read George Orwell's 1984 you need to gain an understanding of the story. The video at the link provides the story in less than 8 minutes.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JIKngJnCU
1 posted on 08/02/2021 6:10:21 PM PDT by Vision
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George Orwell's 1984 Summary
2 posted on 08/02/2021 6:10:42 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Vision

Read Animal Farm and 1984 in 1984.

Wrote a paper on George Orwell for my English class pointing out the evils of Socialism.

The teach gave me a D, all other papers I got usually a A.

Cancel culture was alive and well in the 80’s.


3 posted on 08/02/2021 6:49:48 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

P.S. Great post!


4 posted on 08/02/2021 6:51:00 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Vision

The book’s pretty short. Read it.


5 posted on 08/02/2021 6:55:31 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: lizma2
The teach gave me a D, all other papers I got usually a A.

I was fortunate. During college in the late 70's, my economics professor had Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom as a text book. My English professor, though Liberal leaning, drove stock cars.

6 posted on 08/02/2021 7:18:35 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Vision

Winston Smith played by John Hurt works for the government erasing people the government wants erased (unpersoning). What we know as “Canceling”.


7 posted on 08/02/2021 7:36:04 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dynachrome

A very good audio version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19z5QHcxjxY


8 posted on 08/02/2021 7:46:34 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: lizma2

I read ‘’1984’’ when it was pushed on me in junior high by a sixties type radical ‘’social studies’’ teacher that this was a vision of the future if “We don’t stop the war in Vietnam!’’ She actually said this.

I have to admit that as a fourteen year old I didn’t really understand what the book was about. I thought(in 1969) that 1984 itself was a long way off. I thought we’d be living on the Moon by that time. It was only years later, after I was out of high school that I went back and reread the book that I realized ‘’1984’’ is neither science fiction nor prophecy.

“1984’’ is a warning. A warning against the unbridled pursuit and use of power.


9 posted on 08/03/2021 3:11:48 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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