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| Question | Answer |
| Description of Big Brother | “It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man”. Winston’s feeling of constant surveillance from this figure “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” |
| Description of Winston | "A smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasised by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party" |
| Working class of metropolis | move mechanically with sunken shoulders, while operating heavy machinery and fighting exhaustion, identityless - as the explosion occurs faceless bodies are thrown across a wide frame and men tear off burning clothes as they run from a plume of smoke |
| depiction of Frederson | Walking up and down an excessively large office, dictating business jargon to a clan of eager henchmen - stern brow in closeup shots |
| Concerns expressed in Metropolis | impact of technology/ industrialisation Loss of what it means to be human nature and effects of capitalism |
| Problems of 1920's Germany | Hyperinflation, rioting in the streets and a prevailing sense of anxiety |
| Problems of Post WWII Britian | Continuation of stringent rationing and cold war politics |
| Concerns addressed in 1984 | Threat of totalitarianism and propoganda |
| Both texts emphasise... | The way that the social and cultural aftermath of war shaped the compositional eras |
| Common concerns of texts | Tragic loss of life Totalitarianism Poverty and opression Loss of values of love, compassion, faith, trust and integrity |
| Both texts present | The imminent dangers of the contemporary social and political world. Evaluate the mechanisms of power in institutions that practice socio-political supremacy and tyranny |
| Hope in 1984 | Hope for a better future is ruled out - "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable." Part 1, Chapter 2, pg. 28 - "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 74 |
| Hope in Metropolis | There is still hope Shown by Maria's message to them to be patient and wait for a mediator - this is why the scale of the rebellion is much higher than that shown in metropolis |
| Metropolis fragmented light in workers city | The lighting and shadows along with the non-parallel and broken lines of the architecture are suggestive of the broken human spirit |
| Torchlight on Maria | Symbolic of the capturing and trapping of maria as she is tormented underground |
| Mediator quote | Mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart heart = empathy |
| Low angle shot | Symbolises the robot marias rising power |
| Slogan 1984 | "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." Part 1, Chapter 1, p |
| O'brien quote - misleading | "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." Part 1, Chapter 2, pg. 27 |
| 1984 slogan control | "'Who controls the past', ... 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" Part 1, Chapter 3, pg. 37 |
| 1984 quote manipulation | "a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans" Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 77 |
| 1984 quote love | At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him" Part 2, Chapter 1, pg. 110-11 |
| M. Kieth Booker quote on 1984 | ‘1984 takes its energy from the ability to look back on the worst horrors of the Stalin years-with a side glance at Hitler as well’ – M. Keith Booker |
| Fredersen on wealth | - “Nobody is important except the brain and what it creates; efficiency, which in turn, has created all the wealth of the world” – he believes that efficiency and the pursuit of power justifies the means. Ie. Wealth |
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