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Episode 67 - Everybody Get Your Prole On: George Orwell's 1984 Part 1/3

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I was assigned to read this in high school and honestly can not remember if I did. Part 1 goes up to the end of Chapter 8, we meet out main character Winston and see how he's living. (not the best)

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Ladies gentlemen welcome to oral presentations podcast Episode 67. Everybody get your prol on. George Orwell's 1984, Part

0:26.9

One of Three. We are going to be covering Orwell again. It's about a year anniversary from the last time we did Animal

0:35.9

Orwell which was Animal Farm last February and Super Bowl is coming up and there was a

0:41.1

famous 1984 Apple commercial where somebody throws a sledgehammer at a TV.

0:45.6

I don't know, it felt like it fit. And I didn't know if I honestly, what a weird thing, I don't know if I ever read this.

0:52.0

I remember I got assigned it in high school and I

0:56.3

don't I honestly cannot remember if if I've read it or not I it I definitely

1:01.8

didn't take pride in reading it if I read it. But I think mostly I just

1:05.6

lied and went and went to class. But I remembered the story pretty well. Like the broad strokes of it,

1:11.8

I got the beginning and the setting and the end in my head.

1:15.8

But one of the I broke it up into three because when I was getting into it like this is

1:21.5

I don't I don't want to have to speed through it. I don't want to have to speed through it.

1:24.0

I don't want to have to, there's too much, there's too much to do in one,

1:28.0

one huge one.

1:30.0

And too much for me to remember in one huge one,

1:32.0

unless I want to breeze through it and then it would just sound.

1:34.0

You're like, Winston goes here and then he goes over here and then this happens over here,

1:37.3

which is kind of what it's gonna. I mean, look, it's what this is one of the greatest pieces of literature

1:41.9

ever written, so there's no way I'm going to do

1:43.8

justice to it in any no matter what I decided to go with here but I wanted to do three parts

1:50.0

because I get back into it I forgot how much I liked it so we're doing part one it's mostly

1:55.6

atmosphere we're going to meet our main character here and then we'll do part

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