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- Engagement:
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Testify
The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
As we travel now in coffins
But on the corner, the jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside our door
Now testify
With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me, so I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball rushing
My witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner, the jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door
Now testify
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
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Testemunhe
O filme passou sobre mim
O glamour me dominou
O tabloide me desamarra
Eu estou vazio, por favor me encha
Senhor âncora me assegue
Que Baghdad está queimando
Sua voz é tão tranqüila
Aquele esperto mantra para matar
Eu preciso de você minha testemunha
Para vestir isso bem e pálido
Para me adormecer e me purificar agora
De pensamentos para te culpar
Sim o carro é nossa cadeira de rodas
Minha testemunha tosse
O silêncio pegajoso zomba o aleijado
Que viaja agora em um caixão
Na esquina, a insônia do júri
Nós achamos sua fraqueza
E está ali do outro lado de nossa porta
Agora testemunhe
Com precisão você me alimenta
Minha testemunha, eu estou com fome
Seu templo me acalma, então eu posso continuar
Minha escravidão faz minha pele e meus ossos suarem
Numa cama de fogo eu me sufoco com a fumaça
que enche minha casa
A bola quebrada corre
Testemunhando sua vergonha
O encanamento está jorrando
Enquanto aqui nós mentimos em tumbas
Enquanto nas esquinas, ojúri está sem dormir
Nós achamos sua fraqueza
E ela está ali do outro lado de sua porta
Agora testemunhe
Covas em massa para encher e o preço já está acertado
Quem controla o passado agora controla o futuro
Quem controla o presente agora controla o passado
Quem controla o passado agora controla o futuro
Quem controla o presente agora?
Agora testemunhe
(WILK; COMMERFORD; MORELLO; ROCHA, 1999).
- Ladies and gentlemen…:
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- Have you ever read a novel which the main theme is politics? If yes, what was it like? If not, what do you think a novel like this is like?
- Did you know that “George Orwell” is Eric Arthur Blair´s penname? And that the adoption of this name has to do with a deep change of life?
- Check if you have already heard these words or expressions:
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Big Brother – doublethink – newspeak – room 101 – thoughtcrime – orwellian.
Did you know that George Orwell created all of them and they all have become part of our vocabulary?
- Read it!:
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The Ministry of Truth — Minitrue, in Newspeak — was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
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WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty. The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all (ORWELL, 2014, p. 6-7).
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‘How is the Dictionary getting on?’ said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise. ‘Slowly,’ said Syme. ‘I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.’ He had brightened up immediately at the mention of Newspeak […] ‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said. ‘We’re getting the language into its final shape—the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words —scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.’ […] ‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well — better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already. But in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words— in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.’s idea originally, of course,’ he added as an afterthought. (ORWELL, 2014, p. 66-67)
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- Pay attention to…:
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- 1984 is a literary masterpiece due to the indirect description of the government through the aspects of the everyday life of a citizen. Knowing this, what aspects of the government can you be aware of by reading these excerpts?
- What is the relationship between words and things they represent? What if words represented different things? What if things didn´t have words to represent them? Think of this.
- What do you think is the end of the protagonist? Is he killed by the government? What is the greatest victory the government can achieve in your opinion?
- …As well:
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- Where else have you seen the expression “Big Brother”?
- To what extent is 1984 a fictional book? What can we say about the context in which it was written?
- What´s the importance of literature for our knowledge of history?
- What about today?:
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- The control through words starts necessarily in the speech. Is this statement correct?
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- In the video clip, we could see two opponents saying the same words. Do you think those words really represent what you think they do?
- How can we, when and after choosing our representatives, know if they are doing what they said they would? What are the dangers of not doing this?
- Is it possible to live under a government just like the one described in 1984?
- Text-web (Read, watch and listen):
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- Books from the series:
The hunger games (Jogos Vorazes, Suzanne Colins, Estados Unidos, 2008 – 2010);
Divergent (Divergente, Veronica Roth, Estados Unidos, 2011 – 2013).
- Books:
Brave new world (Admirável mundo novo, Aldous Huxley, Inglaterra, 1932);
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, Estados Unidos, 1953);
A clockwork Orange (Laranja mecânica, Anthony Burgess, Inglaterra, 1962);
- Movies:
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Estados Unidos, 1985);
Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer, Estados Unidos, 2002);
V de vingança (James McTeigue, Estados Unidos, 2006);
O doador de memórias (Phillip Noyce, Estados Unidos, 2014).
- Song:
In 1973, David Bowie released the song 1984 in his album Diamond Dogs. Listen, read the lyrics and follow the translation:
1984
Someday they won't let you,
now you must agree
The times they are a-telling and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves
and the tracks are on tv
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
They'll split your pretty cranium
and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty
but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything
tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
Come see, come see, remember me?
We played out an all night movie role
You said it would last
But I guess we enrolled
In 1984 (who could ask for more)
1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
(Mor-or-or-or-ore) I'm looking for a vehicle
I'm looking for a ride
I'm looking for a party
I'm looking for a side
I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
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1984
Algum dia eles não te deixarão,
agora você concorde
Os tempos não são convincentes, e a mudança não é livre
Você já deve ter lido as folhas de chá,
e as faixas estão na TV
Cuidado com a Lei/Mandíbula Selvagem
De 1984
Eles vão dividir o seu belo crânio
e preenchê-lo com ar
E dizer que você está "nos 80´s",
mas irmão, não se preocupe
Você será atirado sobre qualquer coisa,
o nunca do amanhã
Cuidado com a Lei/Mandíbula Selvagem
De 1984
Venha ver, venha ver, lembra-se de mim?
Nós fazemos papéis um filme a noite toda
Você disse que iria durar,
mas eu acho que nos matriculamos
Em 1984 (quem poderia pedir mais)
1984 (quem poderia pedir mais)
(Mais) Estou à procura de um veículo,
eu estou procurando uma carona
Estou à procura de uma festa,
eu estou procurando por um lado
Eu estou olhando para a traição que eu sabia em '65
Cuidado com a Lei/Mandíbula Selvagem
De 1984
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(BOWIE, 1973)
