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1984 and The Giver (both featuring dystopian societies with strict rules on language usage) has left me with a distinct distaste for the constant skirmishing ov
by quartesixte 5y ago
1984 and The Giver (both featuring dystopian societies with strict rules on language usage) has left me with a distinct distaste for the constant skirmishing over terminology currently active in our current “culture war”.
It frustrates me to no end that English teachers, while assigning both books with high frequency, completely miss the language control part of both novels and focus instead on the other things. It frustrated me as a student, it frustrates me as an adult, and more importantly it frustrates me as a friend/peer to many schoolteachers of English.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI read "1984" in high school and the language control was very much a part of the lesson.
- InTheArena 5y agoI can’t think of a more fitting printed phrase that seems to apply quality well to all sides of the cultural war then the statement - “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others…”