By George Orwell

“Big Brother is watching you.”

War is Peace.

Slavery is Freedom.

Ignorance is Strength.

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Dystopian Fiction

A work of fiction describing an imaginary place or state in which the condition of

life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.

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Dystopian Fiction

Some examples would be:

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Brave New World

A Clockwork Orange

Lord of the Flies

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More Dystopian Fiction

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Divergent Trilogy

The Matched Trilogy

The Giver

Fahrenheit 451

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More Dystopian Fiction

The Gone Series

The Birthmarked Trilogy

City of Ember

Ender’s Game

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1984 is considered to be a

futuristic, cautionary novel,

meaning it is meant to make

the reader cautious about

possible dangers of the future.

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Dystopias make a

criticism about a current

trend, societal norm, or

political system

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Propaganda is used to

control the citizens of the

society

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Information, independent

thought, and freedom are

restricted.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

A figurehead or concept is

worshipped by the citizens

of the society.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Citizens are perceived to be

under constant surveillance.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Citizens have a fear of the

outside world.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Citizens live in a

dehumanized state.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

The natural world is

banished and distrusted.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

Citizens conform to uniform

expectations. Individuality

and dissent are bad.

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Characteristics of a Dystopian Society:

The society is an illusion of a

perfect utopian world.

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Types of Dystopian Controls:

Corporate control—one or more large

corporations control society through

products, advertising, and/or the

media. Exs. “Minority Report,” “The Running

Man”

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Types of Dystopian Controls:

Bureaucratic control—society is

controlled by a mindless bureaucracy

through a tangle of red tape, relentless

regulations, and incompetent

government officials.

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Types of Dystopian Controls:

Technological control—society is

controlled by technology through

computers, robots, and/or scientific

means. Exs.—”The Matrix” movies; “The

Terminator” movies; “I, Robot.”

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Types of Dystopian Controls:

Philosophical/Religious control—

society is controlled by philosophical

or religious ideology often enforced

through a dictatorship or theocratic

government

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The dystopian protagonist:

Often feels trapped and is

struggling to escape.

Questions the existing social and

political systems.

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The dystopian protagonist:

Believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in

which he or she lives

Helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian

world through his or her perspective

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George Orwell

He is best known for the dystopian

novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

and the allegorical novella Animal

Farm (1945).

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Introduction

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Setting

George Orwell wrote this book in 1949. At that time, 1984 seemed a

very long time away. Now it is past, so we can just think of the

time period of this book as sometime in the future. (2084?)

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Setting

London, in the mythical

country of Oceania, 1984 (in

the future)

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Setting

The world of 1984 is made up of

three superstates: Oceania,

Eurasia, and Eastasia.

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Oceania covers the areas of Great Britain, the United States of America, and Latin

America.

Eastasia corresponds to China, Japan, Korea, and India.

Eurasia corresponds to the former Soviet Union area and Continental Europe.

The United Kingdom's placement in Oceania rather than in Eurasia is commented upon in the book as an undisputed historic anomaly.

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Setting

These three superstates are always at war. They have enough

atomic bombs to destroy each other, but a war directly against each other would also destroy

themselves.

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Setting

There can be no winner in such a war. The war they are fighting is for a large mass of

land between the borders of the three superstates. This land contains valuable

minerals like rubber and also a huge population that can be used for cheap

labor.

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Setting

Living conditions in all three

superstates are similar, and the

political structures are the

same.

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Setting

There will be an activity on

setting following Part I.

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Newspeak “Newspeak” is explained in chapters 4 and 5 of 1984, and in an appendix to the book. The language follows, for the most part, the same grammatical rules as English, but has a much

more limiting, and constantly shifting vocabulary. Any synonyms or antonyms,

along with undesirable concepts, are eradicated.

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Newspeak The goal is for everyone to be speaking

this language by the year 2050 (the story is set in the year 1984—hence the title). In the mean time, “Oldspeak” (current

English) is still spoken among the Proles — the working-class citizens of Oceania.

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There will be an activity

on “Newspeak” to be

completed later.

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Doublethink

“Doublethink” is the manipulation of the mind

by making people accept contradictions.

“Doublethink” makes people believe that the

Party is the only institution that knows right

from wrong.

“The Ministry of Truth” (where Winston

works) changes history, facts, and memories

to promote Doublethink.

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The Ministries of Oceania

Oceania's four ministries are housed in huge pyramidal structures displaying the

three slogans of the party on their sides.

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The Ministry of Peace

Minipax is the Newspeak

name for the Ministry of

Peace, which concerns itself

with making war.

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The Ministry of Plenty

Miniplenty in Newspeak, it is the ministry involved in

maintaining constant, ever present poverty in Oceania.

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The Ministry of Truth Minitrue is the propaganda arm of the Ingsoc State. They distribute the leaflets, porno, and of course the telescreens. Winston Smith

spends his daytime hours “correcting” historical records in

Minitrue.

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The Ministry of Love

Miniluv is a gigantic windowless building devoted to torture and

brutality. The home of the Thought Police, it is surrounded by a maze of

barbed wire and machine gun towers.

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Characters

Winston Smith

Julia

O’Brien

Mr. Charrington

The Proles

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Winston Smith

Narrator and Protagonist

Late 30s, lonely, in poor health, separated

Alienated by his awareness/intellectual

Rebels - diary/Julia

Sexually frustrated

Needs to understand the past

Afraid of rats

Is broken in the end

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Julia

Young, beautiful, sensual

Devious – plans trysts and pretends well

Small scale rebellion

Not intellectual

Longs to be feminine

O’Brien says she gives up easily

Loses her sensuality at the end

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Winston’s first sight of Julia 7 Dislike

O’Brien

Complex/paradoxical

Burly and imposing

Wears glasses and adjusts them – “refined”

Tormentor/saviour

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characters to be completed

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The Party In this novel Orwell creates a world in which:

• Citizens have no right to a personal life or personal thought.

• Leisure and other activities are controlled through strict mores.

• Sexual pleasure is discouraged, with females being taught not to enjoy it.

• Sex is retained only for the purpose of reproduction.

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The mysterious head of

government is the omniscient,

omnipotent, beloved Big

Brother, or "BB." He is usually

displayed on posters with the

slogan "BIG BROTHER IS

WATCHING YOU."

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His nemesis is the hated Emmanuel Goldstein, a Party

member who had been in league with Big Brother and The Party during the revolution. Goldstein is said to be a major part of the

Brotherhood, a vast underground anti-Party fellowship.

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The three slogans of the Party, visible everywhere, are:

•WAR IS PEACE

•FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

•IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

While by definition these words are antonyms, in the world of 1984 the world is in a state of constant war, no

one is free, and everyone is ignorant.

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packet that we will complete.

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There is also an activity

on theme from 1984 that

will be completed later.

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Themes

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Literary Elements to Review:

Social Commentary

Satire

Theme

Symbolism

Irony

Paradox

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on satire to be completed

later.

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Satire is a way of making fun of people, systems, ways of government, etc. It

usually does so cruelly, by making them look ridiculous and exposing them to laughter. By doing this, satire aims to

make those people, systems, and ways of government change.

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1984 is not a novel that actually makes us laugh, but it does warn us of the world we might be living in if

we allow political leaders to create a state in which people have no rights

or freedoms.

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to be completed later.

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Review

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