1. After reading the two pieces about Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451 on Wikipedia I feel that they are accurate. They got the point of both stories across. They even give a description of all the characters and their parts in the stories of which were correct as well. I found that they were very descriptive on the plot and got all the main things across especially for Animal Farm. They put things like the 7 commandments and how they end up getting changed.
I checked 3 references on both Animal Farm And Fahrenheit 451.
Here is one for Animal Farm and one for Fahrenheit 451.
2. We include these two pieces of literature in a course where we also study 1984 because they are all based on the same concept. All three of them the people or animals are forced to do things that they dont want to or even believe in doing. They are being lied to and being treated like they are nothing. They arent allowed to do anything and they are always being watched. In all three stories the people/animals do as they are told and dont speak their minds because they are not able too. Their lives are lived pretty much by other people telling them what they have to do weather they like it or not.
3. The term "dystopia" means the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state. A society characterized by human misery,as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
An example of this from real life I think would be China.
4. "Mindless entertainment would replace recreational free thinking" to me this statement means that you are to busy with entertainment and letting it think for you instead of thinking for yourself. Your thoughts are taken over by someone else.
For example in Animal Farm Snowball and Napoleon take charge and start thinking to highly of themselves and start making it hard on the other animals. They have control over the farm and dont let the other animals think for themselves because they are more educated and have more skills then a lot of the other animals.
Another example would be in Fahrenheit 451 when the wife is drugged up on pills and she watches the show "The Family" and believes that she is actually on it and that they are really asking her the questions. While on these pills she forgets everything that is important and starts worrying about little things like the t.v and being popular.
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Animal Farm
Author's/Director's opinion of free speech - George Orwell believes in free speech.
I found this quote - "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals."
George Orwell, 1945, Introduction to Animal Farm
Government's opinion of free speech - All desicions must be taken to Napoleon and he is always right. The other animals have no free speech and have to do as Napoleon says.
How the lead characters resisted - When Snowball announces his idea for a windmill and tries to make the farm a better place. Napoleon Gets the dogs to chase him out of the barn. Or to all the animals that disagreed with what was being said and Napoleon tried to have them all killed.
Fahrenheit 451
Author's/Director's opinion of free speech - From what I read Ray Bradbury does not believe in free speech.
I found this saying - "Ray Bradbury has given a disappointing speech in which he claims that his inspirational novel Fahrenheit 451 has nothing to do with censorship -- as has long been held. Bradbury says that the book was intended as a jeremiad against television."
Government's opinion of free speech - They also believe that books are bad and they put the thoughts of books being bad and makes people non equal in their heads.
How the lead characters resisted - Montag starts reading and hiding books. By the end Montag and Clarisse go join other people where they become the books. They recite thenm and then after they finish they burn the books cause so that they cant come and take them away from them.
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