Compare And Contrast Essay On 1984 By George Orwell

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When I got this prompt, I felt strongly that our world was not becoming like 1984. This is because I get to witness the beautiful things in life every day that come as a result of human connection. I have a very positive outlook on the world; I don’t see it as a unfair, glummy, world full of lies. I see the world as an incredible place where people get to experience love. In this essay, I attempted to prove that our world is different than that of 1984 by showing that in our world we can connect with others because of our freedom of expression, while in 1984, human connection is absent from life because people do not have the freedom to express their emotions. However, I didn’t just want to prove that our world was different than 1984, I wanted …show more content…

At first, the argument was unclear and I didn’t fully prove it to be true. However, after finding that Brenè Brown has pretty much the exact same argument as me, I watched her things, and found better evidence and a better way in which to word my ideas. After making the last second switch in my body paragraphs (real world evidence before 1984 evidence), I feel the argument is strong, easy to understand, yet very complex

What are you still unhappy with? What would you have wanted to continue to work on? I would have loved to do another project like the one we did for Macbeth where we get to submit a physical project along with a paper. This is because I love using creativity in my writing and being able to broadcast my personality in my assignments. A few nights ago, I had my vision for what my project would be: I would video myself going to sit next to a person at a bus stop or a park and act like the characters from 1984 – I would be a bland, boring person and video the conversation (and lack of conversation) that was made. However, I would also go up to random people and express my unique personality and see then if we struck up a conversation and connected. This would be the perfect way to prove that expressing your feelings leads to human

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