PPT-by George Orwell

Animal Farm Orwell characterizes Napoleon Snowball and Squealer as three different types of leaders each with positive and negative traits Provide two outstanding positive traits and two negative ones that characterize each pig Then next to the traits cite an incident action or speech that illustrates each characteristic. How would you define the words rhetoric or rhetorical?. Classic Definitions of Rhetoric. Aristotle:. . Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”. by George Orwell. Seminar. In your groups, discuss your first thoughts after reading the story, using the questions on the worksheet to get you started.. Compare your answers on the worksheet – it’s OK if you have different interpretations!. Animal Farm. and . The Russian Revolution. … One day I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat. . “Politics and the English Language”. 1. Orwell’s Thesis. “Modern English, especially written in English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think more clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers” (4). Eric Blair = George Orwell . Eric Arthur Blair known by his pen name George Orwell.. June 25, 1903-Janurary 21, 1950. English novelist and journalist. Born. Eric Blair was born in Bihar, India. His great-grandfather was a wealthy country gentleman. He had an income as an landlord of slave planation's in Jamaica. . How would you define the words rhetoric or rhetorical?. Classic Definitions of Rhetoric. Aristotle:. . Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”. Professor sabine mendes moura. 2. 2015 – . sabine@uva.br. . http://sabinemendesmoura.wordpress.com. . Trying to define which perspectives.... Take cultural perspectives, for example.... . C. ulture versus . grasped. . that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. .”. “In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by . large . numbers of . people . – the only time in my life . that . I have been important . in Nineteen. . Eighty-Four. . . “. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. Jared Taylor. Sarah Awadalla. Kerry Dezsi. Remy Rose Fababe. George Orwell. Real name is Eric Arthur Blair.. Most famous novels are Animal Farm and 1984.. His main concerns were Imperialism, Fascism, and Communism. . George Orwell - Biography. Eric Arthur Blair. (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name . George Orwell. , was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language.. 2.10 to 3.6 1984 by George Orwell 2.10 What is the deal with the “ beautiful ” Prole? Why does Winston find her attractive? ( 219-20). Lit analysis : What is Orwell’s purpose for including this English Literature in the second half of the twentieth century „…the impotence of capitalist government in the face of Fascism combined with economic dislocation to turn the majority of young intellectuals (and not only intellectuals) in the 1930s to the political left. The 1930s were the so-called red decade, because only the left seemed to offer any solution in various forms of socialism, communism, and left liberalism.” Norton Who. . was. George Orwell?. 1903-1950. Great . Britain. Eric Arthur Blair. The. most . valuable. . novels. : . The Animal Farm. 1984. 1984 . Things you need to know. Dystopian novel. Written in 1949.