Mr Moir's Lesson

These are some developed notes after the lesson.

The prezi presentation and play is based on Dystopianism: an imperfect society.

Definition- Dystopia:

dys·to·pi·a

noun

a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding.

Compare utopia.

(source from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dystopia)

It's a creative an thrilling theme for a movie or novel and that's why many authors have chosen to use it. These are some examples of books that underline the meaning of a dystopian world:

Back to George Orwell:

He was a middle class man and was very much in sympathy with the working class.

At the time the class system was strict so if you were categorised as a class you'd keep to it and would care about what only you had. 

Orwell was an experienced man and he lived through rough periods of Empire, two World Wars ; the Great Depression and Decolonisation.

History Fact (1): By 1947 we ,Britain, decided to decolonise and gave India its independence. 

George Orwell was a Socialist. His father was an Imperial Civil Servant when India was still British and took care of the Opium trade in India.

Orwell Fact (1): he was schooled at Eton College.

History Fact (2): 1984 was written during a social revolution-written in 1948.

Interesting Fact: Room 101 ,which is the torture room in the book, is the place thought-criminals could taken. The torture itself is whatever the person fears most and in the case of Winston Smith it was rats. In a way Room 101 actually did exist! It was a room in London's first skyscraper (as shown below) where university students would get there results. So in the eyes of a student it really would be their greatest fear.