We worked on a precis based on the essay on “Revisiting George Orwell: why I write in the 21st Century”
Read your assigned essay for tomorrow (on Moodle as 1984 Reading Package of 5 Essays):
- As Orwell’s 1984 Turns 70 It Predicted Much of Today’s Surveillance Society
- What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
- How Has George Orwell’s Novel”1984″ Come True Today?
- 1984 And George Orwell Live Again in Putin’s Russia
- The Message for Today in Orwell’s ‘1984″