Essay Planner sheet
Set Title: The effects on the ideology of George Orwell and Martin Luther King
Junior by their wives
Question- In your own words
How did the wives of these two artists, one a speaker and one a writer, affect their ideas
and opinions expressed in their speeches and novels?
Idea1: Introduction of George Orwell’s wife, life and relationship with Orwell as well her
main opinions and views. Express George Orwell’s main ideas expressed in 1984 and
compare their views
Idea 2: Introduction of Martin Luther King Junior’s wife, life and relationship with King
as well her main opinions and views. Express Martin Luther King’s main ideas expressed
in ‘I have a dream’ and ‘I see the promised land’
Idea 3: Compare the two men and their ideas in relation to how their wives affected them
and how much they affected them
Introduction- George Orwell’s 1984 and Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ and ‘I
see the promised land’ speeches. Give main differences between them (other than one is
writer and one is a public speaker)
Topic
Sentence
1: There is
evidence
that Eileen
O’Shaughn
essy
affected
George
Orwell’s
ideas and
views
expressed
in 1984.
1.
Main Themes/Quotes
Subtopics:
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Mentioning her birth
and death
Marriage
Work status (writer)
Main points and views
expressed in her works
Other people’s view on
her
Summative Sentence: To
explain briefly the idea of Eileen
O’Shaughnessy, her life and
marriage to George Orwell.
Mention views that other people
have expressed about her
compared to how people
describe her husband.
Mentioning her works and key
ideas in her work in comparison
to her husband’s novel ‘1984’
http://marriage.about.com/od/
thearts/p/orwellgeileen.htm
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Basic Information
Her works
Comparing her works with her
husbands
Comparing views on her from other
people to views on her husband
Comparing views on husband and wife
Notice if there are any similarities or
differences in their works
(CHECKED)
FIND QUOTES (CHECKED!)
Quote: "I was sometimes unfaithful to
Eileen, and I also treated her badly,
and I think she treated me badly, too,
at times, but it was a real marriage, in
the sense that we had been through
awful struggles together and she
understood all about my work, etc."
http://marriage.about.com/od/theart
s/p/orwellgeileen.htm
Topic
Sentence 2
I believe
that
Coretta
Scott
influenced
Martin
Luther
King
Junior to
stand up
for the
rights of
black
people and
help
people see
that they
should live
in peace,
blacks and
whites.
Topic
Sentence 3
The two
wives
influenced
their
husbands;
however
they each
influenced
them
differently.
2.
Subtopics:
- Mentioning her birth
and death
- Marriage
- Work status
- Her points of views
Main Theme and Quotes:
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Basic information
Mentioning the cheating (effects on her
and him)
Pointing out her problems as a black
woman
FIND QUOTES (CHECKED)
"...he was looking for a wife. I
wasn't looking for a husband, but he
was a wonderful human being...I
still resisted his overtures, but after
he persisted, I had to pray about
it...I had a dream, and in that dream,
I was made to feel that I should
allow myself to be open and stop
fighting the relationship. That's
what I did, and of course the rest is
history. " http://www.thescavenger.net/femini
sm-a-pop-culture/the-difficult-roleof-the-strong-black-woman83968.html
Summative Sentence: To
describe the marriage,
problems and life of Coretta
Scott. Mention her problems
as a black woman living in
Alabama in those times.
Mention her points of views
on her husband’s work.
Mention other people’s
opinions of her and compare
their ideas of her to ideas in
Martin Luther King Juniors
speeches.
http://marriage.about.com/od/
politics/p/martincoretta.htm
http://www.gale.cengage.com
/free_resources/whm/bio/king
_c_s.htm
3.
Main Themes and Quotes:
 Final expression of the women
Subtopics:
 Their influences on speeches and
- Giving basic themes
novel
and views of ‘1984’
 Their husbands view on their wives
and George Orwell
(treatment, time spent with them
- Giving basic themes
and how much they took care of
and views expressed
their wives)
in mentioned above
 FIND QUOTES (CHECKED)
speeches
 Everything I listen to is influential
- Mention major
in some way.
influences wives had
Joanna Noelle Levesque
- Compared influences
 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes
of the wives in terms
/keywords/influential.html
of how much and how
deeply they
influenced their
husbands
Summative Sentence:
To give a full comparison of
the two women and their
husbands and their influences
of the speeches and novel
written by their husbands.
Mention major influences
made by both women; how
much, how deep, how much
is it shown in text or speech.
Conclusion- what did you
learn?
Eileen O’Shaughnessy
influenced her husband by
writing a poem that inspired
him.
Coretta Scott influenced her
husband by always
supporting him and having
the same ideas as he did.
Idea 1
They did support their
husbands.
Idea 2
The poem ‘End of Century’
Themes:
Inspiration
Idea 3
Themes: Support
Marching with him
Singing to support him
Giving speeches for him
Receiving awards for him
Reflection
Themes:
I think it is important, in
- Importance of
order to understand the
understanding the
speeches and novel to know
influences
what influenced each writer
to write these speeches or
novel. I don’t think it has
been highlighted enough the
importance of these women,
in relation to the success of
their husbands.
Exam revision: Remember
I=Q+ABC
TS=ABC
Co=ABC+R