Benutzer:Weidinger Julian

English - LK 09/11

Homework

summary 1984

It is 1984 and Winston Smith lives in London which is a city of the country Oceania. The whole world is divided into three countries: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. All of them are totalitarian societies, which are led by Big Brother, which censors everyone’s behavior, as well as their thoughts. Winston hates his oppressed life and secretly wants to join the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels who want to overthrow the government. Winston meets Julia and they secretly fall in love and have an affair, something which is considered a crime. One day, while walking home, Winston encounters O’Brian, an inner party member, who gives Winston his address. Winston had exchanged glances with O’Brian before and had dreams about him giving him the impression that O’Brian was a member of the Brotherhood. Since Julia hated the party as much as Winston did, they went to O’Brian’s house together where they were introduced into the Brotherhood. O’Brian is actually a faithful member of the Inner-Party and this is actually a trap for Winston, a trap that O’Brian has been cleverly setting for seven years. Winston and Julia are sent to the Ministry of Love which is a sort of rehabilitation center for criminals accused of thoughtcrime. There, Winston was separated from Julia, and tortured until his beliefs coincided with those of the Party. Winston denounces everything he believed him, even his love for Julia, and was released back into the public where he wastes his days at the Chestnut Tree drinking gin.

Translation 1

Ein ständiges Hauptthema von Englischklassen in der High-School, Romeo und Julia wurde von Shakespeare zu einem relativ frühen Punkt in seiner literarischen Karriere geschrieben, höchst wahrscheinlich 1594 oder 1595. Während großer Teile des 20. Jahrhunderts tendierten Kritiker dazu, dieses Stück im Vergleich zu den vier großartigen Tragödien, die Shakespeare im ersten Jahrzehnt des 17. Jahrhunderts geschrieben hat, gering zu schätzen. Neben den Hauptwerken des Dichters bewertet, scheint Romeo und Julia die psychologische Tiefe und die strukturelle Komplexität von Shakespeares späteren Tragödien zu fehlen. Doch über die letzten drei Jahrzehnte oder so haben viele Wissenschaftler diese Einschätzung geändert, was seinen Status innerhalb Shakespeares Gesamtwerk gewissermaßen aufgewertet hat. Von einer modernen Perspektive aus gesehen, ist Shakespeares Tragödie über das "unter einem schlechten Stern stehende" junge Liebespaar als ein außergewöhnliches Werk gesehen. Tatsächlich war Romeo und Julia zur Zeit seiner Komposition ein experimentelles Bühnenstück, das mehrere radikale Abweichungen von langjährigen Gebräuchen beinhaltete. Diese innovativen Aspekte des Stücks bekräftigen außerdem seine Hauptthemen und schmückte sie aus. Letztere beinhalten den Gegensatz zwischen Liebe und Hass, die entsprechende Benutzung einer Licht/Dunkelheit-Polarität, die Handhabung der Zeit (als Thema und als strukturelles Element) und die bedeutende Stellung des Schicksals und seinen Ausdruck in Träumen, Vorzeichen und Ahnungen, die sein tragisches Endergebnis ankündigen.

Vocabulary

English	Deutsch
literary career	literarische Karriere
Bard	Dichter
mature works	Hauptwerke
canon	Gesamtwerk
composition	Komposition
stage piece	Bühnenstück

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The advert "Buckle up ..."

question	answer
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US politics

Terms/phrases about "US politics"

1. president = Präsident
2. constitution = Verfassung
3. law = Gesetz
4. presidency = Präsidentschaft
5. party = Partei
6. "bully pulpit" = "Tyrannenkanzel"
7. political acumen = politischer Scharfsinn
8. economy = Wirtschaft
9. equal rights = Gleichberechtigung

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