1984 by george orwell - chino valley unified school district · first published 1984 (whose working...
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first published 1984 (whose working title was The Last Man in Europe) in England in June of 1949
—7 months before his death from tuberculosis.
Author: George Orwell(aka Eric Blair)
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Personal Suffering
World Situation
Enhanced fears
about the future
WWI
Great Depression
WWII
Beginnings of the
Cold War
Context
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Orwell’s fear = a world where totalitarian dictatorship destroys human freedoms and human kind.
Benito Mussolini’s
Fascism
Adolf Hitler’s
Nazi Germany
Joseph Stalin’s
Communist Soviet Union
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Totalitarianism
• absolute authority and central control over all aspects of life by the government
• Opposing political and cultural expression suppressed
• Forceful methods of persuasion used – censorship, terrorism
Collectivism
• Group > Individual
• State ownership of land and means of production
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1984 details a future negative utopia, also known in literature as a
DYSTOPIA.
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Dystopia
books
film
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DYSTOPIA
✓An imaginary place or state, usually set in a future time, in which the condition of life is extremely bad, due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. ✓present trends are carried out to their intensely unpleasant extremes.
WHY?✓to convince readers to avoid any path that might lead to such societal degradation.
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1.Propaganda is used to control the citizens
2.Info, independent thought, and freedom restricted
3.A figurehead is worshipped by citizens
4.Citizens are under constant surveillance
5.Citizens have a fear of the outside world
6.Citizens live in a dehumanized state
7.The natural world is banished and distrusted
8.Citizens conform to uniform expectations
9.Individuality and dissent are bad
10.The society is an illusion of a perfect utopia
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NARRATOR: omniscient 3rd person
SETTING: London, England Chief city of
Airstrip One 3rd most populous
province of OCEANIA
PROTAGONIST: Winston Smith
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THREE
SUPERPOWERS
EURASIA OCEANIA EASTASIA
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Big Brother(figurehead of the Party)
INGSOC: English Socialism
Sacred Principles of INGSOC: ✓Newspeak (language)✓Doublethink✓Mutability of the past