Help!

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Ok, I need some help. In my english class we read the book by George Orwell called "1984". In the book there is a character named Goldstein, who is supposed to be like the liberator or the good guy, but in reality it's just a scapegoat for the government.

I have to do a 15 minute project with three other kids about Goldstein. I have to encorporate the other students in the class in it somehow. It can be anything. A gameshow, or whatever.

We've come up with a few ideas, but they're all crap. I'm now looking for the .Org, to show it's worth once again!

Thanks.

[Fragony]

Goldstein is jewish, may be a good start.

[English assassin]

No it might not.

I don't get it, so you have to do something that riffs off the idea that a good guy turns out just to be a stooge for a bad guy in some way, so people don't kick against the bad guy so much, is that it? It has to involve the whole class and it has to be over in 15 minutes?

Blimey.

How about some sort of fake reality TV show where it somehow turns out all the contestants are not normal people (well, they never are, but you know what I mean) but connected with the show? maybe you could even spin a twist that the real show was the audience debating and voting on the contestants, and not vice versa. After the voting was over you could have a bit of dialogue between two producers revealing that all the contestants were fake, and discussing which of your class members had looked particularly silly/angry/whathaveyou for the real show.

And it has the benefit of an (admitedly rather obvious) nod to Big Brother.

best i can do

[Alexanderofmacedon]

No it might not.

I don't get it, so you have to do something that riffs off the idea that a good guy turns out just to be a stooge for a bad guy in some way, so people don't kick against the bad guy so much, is that it? It has to involve the whole class and it has to be over in 15 minutes?

Blimey.

How about some sort of fake reality TV show where it somehow turns out all the contestants are not normal people (well, they never are, but you know what I mean) but connected with the show? maybe you could even spin a twist that the real show was the audience debating and voting on the contestants, and not vice versa. After the voting was over you could have a bit of dialogue between two producers revealing that all the contestants were fake, and discussing which of your class members had looked particularly silly/angry/whathaveyou for the real show.

And it has the benefit of an (admitedly rather obvious) nod to Big Brother.

best i can do

It's anything. She set us loose and said "Do something with Goldstein and include your classmates". Including classmates like making it interactive.

English thank you for your idea. I'll see if that helps.

[Geoffrey S]

The whole class has read 1984, right? Memory of the book's a bit hazy, but ou could have at least one Goldstein figure who basically criticises the state, encouraging the class to join in; meanwhile, another person representing the state and Big Brother keeps track of who enters the debate most clearly and after some time periodically removes them from the room, representing the function Goldstein has in the book of providing some hope through which dissent is revealed and removed.