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1984

Prompt 1 I do not think that pariotism means supporting your government in times of war. There may be times when your county will involve itself in a war that you do not necessarily agree with. Just because you disagree with your countries involvement in the war does not mean that you lack patriotism. People should be allowed to agree and disagree with their government from time to time.

Prompt 2 Judy Brady's essay "I Want a Wife(1971)", published in //Ms.// Magazine asserts all of the roles and responsibilities that were placed on a wife just because they were a wife. Brady supports her assertion by stating all of the roles and jobs that wives were expected to do, such as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. Brady's purpose is to point out all of the social obligations placed on women in order to show unfair gender roles in society. Brady's audience was made up of middle-class women who read //Ms.// Magazine and were ready to break from the roles that society had placed on them.

Prompt 3 George Orwell wrote //1984// as a prediction of what was going to happen to the world if totalitarian forms of government took power. Orwell's audience for his novel was a post-World War II western society. Orwell used //1984// as a way to address the balance of power and the danger of totalitarianism. His audience was in fear of the Soviets gaining power, so to the the world in the novel was much too realistic.

Prompt 4 Orwell's major message in //1984// is the danger of totalitarianism. He wrote the novel to warn people of the dangers of this form of government. HIs whole novel is based on a totalitarian society. Orwell was worried by how governments were using technology to monitor their citizens and he was disturbed by the oppression he witnessed in communist countries.

Orwell's novel perfectly portrays a totalitarian country. He exhibits what would happen if a citizen disagreed with the country an showed examples of what the government would use to control its people, including psychological manipulation, physical control, censorship of information and history, technology, and language as mind control.

Prompt 5 George Orwell's novel //1984,// published in 1949, asserts the destruction and pain totalitarian forms of government have on society and human beings. Orwell supports his assertions by creating a perfect negative utopia and showing a number of methods the government uses to control its citizens, including psychological manipulation, physical control, censorship of information and history, using language as mind control, and technology. Orwell's purpose is to prove the dangers and downfalls of totalitarian forms of government in order to prevent individuals from believing this to be a suitable method to run a society. This book was written to appeal to a post-World War II society of people who were in fear of communist governments taking the title as the leading world power and are traumatized after witnessing the destruction caused by corupt leaders like Adolf Hitler.

Orwell's reason for writing the novel //1984// is to show communism-weary peoples the dangers of totalitarian governments. In the novel, he creates a negative utopia, or the worst human society imaginable. Negative utopias are used in novels in order to convice readers to avoid any action that may lead to that form of society. Orwell despised totalitarian leaders and their forms of government. He knew how dangerous they were and the power that they possessed. His novel was an effort to show his audience that totalitarian forms of government were terrible and should never be allowed to exist.