Web Quest #2

1. Both the descriptions of Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451, are accurate. I would have liked to see a little more on Fahrenheit 451 though, as the description is quite small.

One article I read on Fahrenheit 451 was this. I also read this one, and this one.

Animal Farm had references from here, here, and here.

All these articles seem to me to be quite reputable.
2. We included these two pieces of literature, before 1984 because they deal with the same subject matter. In all three pieces, a sort of government control is set over a population. The population is lead to believe in a different way of life rather that what we know in the lives we live today. Each of these pieces brings up valid scenarios in what could happen for a government to take control over a population, and one may even argue that some of those things are being practised within our own country.

3. Dystopia - A state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression or terror.

In different terms, dystopia means a place where you can not live a free, willing, or happy life. Things are unnecessarily bad in one or many ways, and every day of life would be hated by almost every being.


A place I have recently learned about where I found the conditions were particularly bad, would be Rwanda. I have heard many things about Rwanda, but could never have imagined the reality of what those people went through, and are still going through today. Rwandans were segregated by certain physical aspects, that were in reality imaginary, and the minority group was slaughtered off by the majority. Many people have tried stopping this civil war, but have had little success in it.


4. An event in the movie Fahrenheit 451, an example of their "mindless entertainment" would be how they watched t.v. People were called on the phone, and told they would be part of a program set to air at a certain time. The citizens would proceed to watch the show and answer questions that the television directed at them. Another example, taken from Animal Farm, would be what the sheep were taught to say. The sheep constantly blurted out "Four legs good, two legs bad" throughout the book, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. In fact they were taught this to keep their minds occupied with nothing but a dulled down saying that granted instant satisfaction for them.


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