Socratic Seminar Questions

English 1-2 1984 Socratic Seminar Questions 3. Reading and writing for pleasure promotes independent thought, hardly it is not dangerous. It lets you picture how you are in reality feeling inside. It is something private that you decide whether or not someone may look at it. In the beginning of the book 1984, Winston writes in his notebook. He hesitated to the highest degree it for a while before he actually began writing. He let out what was going through his mind, it was going really head but then he suddenly stopped writing. The thought that he could get caught terrified him. Big Brother considers writing and reading for pleasure to be dangerous.If batch were to read and write they would realize what has been going on, and this would bring an end to Big Brother. 4. Revisionism still exists to twenty-four hour period, and we have been victims of it without us even knowing. When we were younger we would learn well-nigh Christopher Columbus and how he sailed on three ships and how he reached the Americas were he kindly greeted the Native Americans. But is this really what happened? What they didnt tell us was how Columbus affiliated genocide. He deliberately slaughtered so umteen of these indigenous people. Him and his crew raped, tortured, burned, and killed these Natives.We have been victims of revisionist history. I do agree that knowledge of history is powerful. If you are able to influence history, you control the past. In 1984 Winston works in the Ministry of Truth were he changes the history to make it seem like Big Brother is always right. That is why the people had a blind fold over their eyes. They couldnt realize what was really going because of the rewriting of history. 6. Thought crime, according to the book 1984 is intellection of anything that the Thought law of nature and the Party says is illegal. Illegal is anything that creates individuality. Individuality for the divulgey is not good.I do believe a form of thoughtcrime exists in our society today. We have our own way of thinking that might not go along with what society or the government believes. The government has laws that many people do not agree with. But we really cant do anything about it. We have our own thoughts that the government may not like, but the government cant do anything about that either. 5. In the book 1984 technology helps the Party control Oceania. Today technology functions through television, radio, phones, cameras, satellites, and the internet. I believe it is used for evil. Yes, technology an be very helpful, but is it really needed? Back in time people didnt have much technology and they were still happy. Technology now a day is used for evil things. Many people cyber bully. Because of cyber bullying many children have committed suicide. This is what technology has led to. Music is also a big part in technology that is very influential in technology. The music we hear daily have messages behind them. Most of the music is about se x, revenge, getting drunk, doing drugs, and many other things. This is what our brain is recording, these messaged are in our head. That is why I think technology can be evil.