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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

1984 Essays - Existentialism

For those of you working on comparing Winston and Daru as existentialist heroes, please use this space to post ideas, helpful resources, passages from 1984 or "The Guest" that you are considering using, and/or questions.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would recommend trying to really find a good explanation for this subject. It takes a few different sourses and explanations to understand it fully.

-scj 2W

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Anonymous said...

Existentialism was especially prominent in post-World War years as a way for people to reassert the importance of human individuality and freedom. That could be a good relation to the war in 1984 and the conflict in Nigeria in The Guest.

-nsh 2W

Mrs. Robinson said...

Just to be clear, the conflict in "The Guest" is in Algeria.