What does Orwell's word choice of "scrutinized" imply about the way the citizens of this society are watched? How would the connotation have changed if Orwell had used "watched"

The word 'scrutinized' suggests that the government was not just watching the movements of its citizens but was actively looking into the lives of its citizens apart from watching any sort of infraction.

The word 'watched' would have changed the ominous feelings of the sentence.

Explanation:

1984: A Novel is a dystopian novel written George Orwell. The novel is set in the future and centers on the aftermaths of the totalitarian. The society in the novel is ruled by the Party who has employed the Though Police, that persecutes independent thinking.

Orwell has used the word 'scrutinized' to emphasize that the government was not just watching the movements of its citizen but also actively looking into the lives of its citizens. Despite that the government was watching into the lives of its citizens, it was also watching into any sort of infraction.

If Orwell would have used the word 'watched,' it would have changed the ominous feelings of the passage.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.