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The insights that Nineteen Eighteen-Four demonstrate on language and politics provide a lesson that all of society currently need. The most essential insight that 1984 depicts is the abuse of power and the potential corruption found within government and politics. Orwell made an essential observation that can be applied to many governments present ( Read more... )

First and foremost, modern literature is so much better than I predicted. In a way it seems to encompass many of the good qualities from other eras, because pasts lessons cannot be forgotten, my personal favourite being the resonant value of art for arts sake. I think that the biggest thing that has come out of modern literature, specifically ( Read more... )

Do you think Conrad and Coppola are identifying one of the root causes of continuing violence in the world today ( Read more... )

These first two weeks have been so much better than I thought they would be. I was so impressed by the romantic period of literature and art that I thought there would be nothing that would top it, especially nothing modern. For some reason I thought that modern literature would just be really dry, political and unimaginative but now I see that the ( Read more... )

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This week we visited the N.S.W art gallery and it was absolutely awe-inspiring as per usual. I really love the Romantic period and visiting this visit to the gallery just reiterated this fact for me. I think this visit was a really opportune experience, which provided me with a fresh outlook on the era. To be honest, I always found the Victorian ( Read more... )

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