"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
-George Orwell, 1984
The three fictional superstates of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are Oceania (black), Eurasia (red), and Eastasia (yellow). 'Disputed territories' are indicated in grey.
Reading ScheduleWeek 1: Part 1, Chapters 1-4 by Friday, March 20th
Week 2: Part 1, Chapters 5-8 by Friday, March 27th Week 3:Part 2, Chapters 1-7 by Monday, April 6th Spring Break Week 4: Part 2, Chapters 8-10 by Friday, April 24th Week 5: Part 3, Chapters 1-4 by Friday, May 1st Week 6: Part 3, Chapters 5 to the End by Friday, May 8th “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Biographical Information
Click on the image above to go to a biography of George Orwell from the Orwell Foundation.
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
Concepts to Support Understanding
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Multimedia Resources“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
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