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Mind Map by Polina Strich, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Polina Strich
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Orwell and 1984
- 1903: real name: Eric Arthur Blair born in India
- 1911: boarding school in England, but he doesn't feel at
ease because the other students were snobbish and from
wealthier families
- 1922: joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (officer)
- 1927: resigned (disappointment by imperialistic oppressive
methods) and returned to Europe, where he lived on the
streets in Paris and London experiencing life as a homeless
- 1932: began a teaching career
- 1936: married Eileen O’Shaughnessy.
- 1936: fought on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War
- severely wounded, returned to England
- 1941: joined the BBC and is rejected for military service due to his poor health
- wrote essays exalting British institutions if compared to totalitarism (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin)
- 1945: "Animal Farm" - satire of Russian Revolution
- 1945: 1945 his wife died
- 1949: publication of 1984
- 1950: re-married but three months later died. (suffered from tubercolisis)
- awareness
of social
injustice
- emotional
identification with
the working class.
- role of the artist ➝ to
inform, to reveal facts and
draw conclusions from
them ➝ social function.
- role of the artist ➝ to
inform, to reveal facts and
draw conclusions from
them ➝ social function.
- emotional
identification with
the working class.
- SOCIAL THEMES
- realistic language
- misery caused by poverty
- depravation of society
- depravation of society
- misery caused by poverty
- realistic language
- The essay
- Orwell warns against “the vagueness and the sheer incompetence of modern
English prose”. A writer should use a clear and direct language, so as to
become an actual instrument of information and communication
- Orwell warns against “the vagueness and the sheer incompetence of modern
English prose”. A writer should use a clear and direct language, so as to
become an actual instrument of information and communication
- 1984
- to suggest that society could
easily be transformed in
reality in the near future
- science-fiction
- satirical meaning
- satirical meaning
- DYSTOPIAN NOVEL
- = speaks of negative utopia
- the world represented
is completely negative,
the worst imaginable
- the world represented
is completely negative,
the worst imaginable
- = speaks of negative utopia
- The War
inspired
Orwell and
also the 2
atomic
bombs
- oppressive world
- no privacy
- no space for love or happiness or
different idead
- London, in the future
- terror and constant
control
- telescreens
- microphones
- videocameras
- telescreens
- Punishment against the rebels
- duty to eliminate those who deverge from the Party
- duty to eliminate those who deverge from the Party
- BRAINWASHING
- no privacy
- BIG BROTHER
- distant, yet
omnipresent
oppressor
- symbol of the total control of the
individual's life by mass media
- "Is watching you!" - posters everywhere
- distant, yet
omnipresent
oppressor
- prophetic picture of a world where individuality is annihilated
- provides the account of the way a totalitarian state attempts to control
the thoughts of its citizens through language.
- the world is divided into 3 great powers
- Eurasia
- Eastasia
- Oceania
- England is part of
- England is part of
- continually at war with each other
- Eurasia
- PARTY VS PROLES
- Ministry of Truth
- manipulates people's mind
- modifies and rewrites books and
documents adapting them to the
political needs of the moment
- historical memory and consciousness CANCELLED
- REDUCTION OF VOCABULARY
- IMPOSSIBILITY TO
THINK AND REACT
AGAINST THE PARTY
- IMPOSSIBILITY TO
THINK AND REACT
AGAINST THE PARTY
- REDUCTION OF VOCABULARY
- historical memory and consciousness CANCELLED
- rewrites history and past
- modifies and rewrites books and
documents adapting them to the
political needs of the moment
- manipulates people's mind
- Thoght police
- torture
- torture
- Ministry of Truth
- Importance of memory and trust.
- protagonist: Winston Smith
- not casual: reference to Churchill
- works for the Ministery of Truth but is not
devotes. Has a love-story but is betrayed and
punished by a "friend" of him. Hated the party
and tried to rebel but is defeated and learns to
love Big Brother.
- works for the Ministery of Truth but is not
devotes. Has a love-story but is betrayed and
punished by a "friend" of him. Hated the party
and tried to rebel but is defeated and learns to
love Big Brother.
- not casual: reference to Churchill
- IT'S A WARNING against the danger of
total adhesion to a political system and its
leader
- warning through a negative example in order to avoid it
- warning through a negative example in order to avoid it
- to suggest that society could
easily be transformed in
reality in the near future
- LANGUAGE
- clear
- uncomplicated
- influenced by his work as journalist
- opposite words and
paradox are employed in
the slogans
- clear
- PESSIMISM
- = struggle against all superpowers can never be successful
- = struggle against all superpowers can never be successful
- NEWSPEAK
- the official language
- eliminates undesirable words
- aim: to
reduce human
conscioussnes
and soppress
free thinking
- the official language
- DOUBLETHINKING
- manipulation of the mind by making people accept contradictions and every idea
- makes people believe that
the Party is the only
institution that knows right
from wrong.
- possibility to believe in two ideas at the same time, even if they're
contradictory
- manipulation of the mind by making people accept contradictions and every idea
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