English

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

I narrow my gaze, suppressing the urge to release the tears welling in my eyes, the anguish in my right knee intensifying with each passing moment. Amidst a cluster of players, I observe my team coach hastening toward me, surrounded by a hushed assembly of athletes exchanging speculative remarks. A series of events leading to this point. Was my life ever in my control?

Question 2

Thesis

Answer 2

The collective human experience of our external locus of control insists that human experiences are subject to exterior forces. Put simply, humans are fundamentally flawed when they believe their lives are out of their control and within the control of their environment.

Question 3

Intro to 1984

Answer 3

Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ unveils an external locus of control, where the Party, through masterful manipulation of language, conceals a deep-seated hatred for it. Rewriting history to obliterate humanity’s past, erasing heritage, and crafting new dictionaries to stifle self-expression, Orwell’s narrative underscores the profound influence of language on communication—both spoken and written.

Question 4

1st analysis

Answer 4

The external locus of control becomes glaringly evident to me, through the manipulation of language under the party’s control, allowing the party to control facts to influence those in the proles ,lowest level of hierarchy, to believe the party is always right. The importance of this form of control is conceptualised through the motif of “past” which is mentioned more than 100 times. In accompaniment with the ironic language in “Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” Orwell conveys the Party’s attempt to control human reality through language.