...is worshiped almost as if he were a god. Blackwhite- The ability to accept whatever "truth" the party puts out, no matter how absurd it may be. Chocorat - Chocolate ration. 30 grams per week. crimethink - To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc. Doubting any of the principles of Ingsoc. All crimes begin with a thought. So, if you control thought, you can control crime. Crimethinker - One who engages in crimethink. Doublethink - Reality Control. The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. For example, “War is Peace” Duckspeak - To speak without thinking. Can be either good or bad, depending on who is speaking, and whether or not they are on your side. Eastasia - Smallest of the 3 Superstates. Eurasia - One of the 3 Superstates. FicDep - Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth The Golden Country- A beautiful landscape that Winston sees in his dreams. Goodsex - Sex for the purpose of producing children for the party. Hate week - Week in which Oceanian citizens all attend rallies and parades to inflame hatred of Party enemies and heighten their efforts on behalf of Oceania. Ingsoc - English Socialism. Inner Party. Official Party members. Upper class. Newspeak - The official language of Oceania. Oceania - One of the 3 Superstates. Outer Party - Middle class. Room 101 - The final punishment for thoughtcriminals in the Ministry...
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...One of the ways he critiques the political norms is through Ingsoc. In 1984, Ingsoc is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania. Ingsoc exists for the purpose of Expanding the Nation of Oceania as believers of the ideology feel as if Oceania is the supreme nation and all other nations deserve to be removed. Orwell uses Ingsoc as a way to critique the political ideologies common in the early twentieth century such as fascism. For example, In Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, both Mussolini and Hitler pursued territorial expansion as they both believed their home countries were superior than all other nations. Clearly, to critique this, Orwell creates Ingsoc which is quite similar to fascism in its belief that the home nation, Oceania, is superior to all other nations. Another political norm of society Orwell critiques is the idea of continuous war. For instance, in Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, it says, “ war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over...
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...The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a citizen of Oceania, one of their world’s three superstates along with Eurasia and Eastasia. It is the year 1984 and Winston lives in a place called Airstipe One, which used to be known as Great Britain. Winston is a member of the Party that rules Oceania under the principles of Ingsoc (English Socialism). Winston has never quite accepted the principles of Ingsoc and the Party. He believes in an unalterable past and wishes for privacy, love, and freedom, but cannot express himself for he fears death. Such thoughts constitute “thoughtcrimes,” which are highly punishable offenses resulting in arrest, imprisonment, torture, and even death. The telescreen was created in order to catch thought criminals...
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...George Orwell’s 1984 paints a world where the human spirit succumbs to tyranny, becoming victim to an abusive governmental regime interested only in pure power. With a shallow analysis, this dystopian universe appears foreign, but in actuality, the risk of corrupt government remains a constant threat. For example, in countries such as North Korea, such a government already thrives, even under the watchful eye of a global community dedicated to retaining democracy. Whenever a ruling body takes unto itself the power to alter public opinion through deception, this raises red flags because it manifests as classical emotional abuse on a national or even international scale. For this reason, it is especially important that high school students read...
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...When distribution of power in a society is too unevenly distributed, or when one group abuses their power too greatly to the detriment of others, then the oppressed often find a way to rebel or even initiate revolution. In Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four we see depictions of dystopian societies that provoke rebellion or revolution, though as each text was produced during or shortly after significantly different periods of conflict and upheaval, we ultimately see two different attitudes presented, with very different expectations for the outcome of such actions. Throughout history, the most common social structure to provoke revolution is one with hierarchical social classes. Lang’s depiction of divided social classes in a film encouraging sympathy for the lower class, has parallels with its time, being produced shortly after the German revolution in which the imperial government was replaced by a form of democracy (the Weimar Republic). Lang uses expressionistic imagery, and the strong contrast of light and shade characteristic of German Expressionist Cinema to distinguish the two classes inhabiting the futuristic city. The workers are depicted in uniform black, trudging in synchronised columns into a dark tunnel to their work with the machines. Exiting, they walk at a slower pace suggesting work draws the life out of them, while montages of gears and heavy machinery construct them as part of the machine. This opening sequence is juxtaposed with the light shades and open...
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...society can devolve into something much worse a lesson all too relevant in the modern world 1984 presents a society that has become a nightmarish land of government surveillance, misinformation, and groupthink. Presenting the hellscape after it has developed, throughout the book it is shown how the perfectly recognizable world of the 40s became such a hellish world. The original party thinkers came to the conclusion that with the encroachment of technology, the walls between the classes were getting too thin High, middle and low, the trinity of stations that has existed in every single human culture would eventually conglomerate into a single amorphous station. Believing this to be inherently wrong, the thinkers created the original IngSoc with the intent to form a society where the classes would stay in place and production would be forced to slow down for the overall benefit of the people. Unfortunately those on the inside became drunk with power, and turned this attempt at fixing the ills of society into a massive collective of slavery. Their methods are of controls can be found in the three statement motto of Oceania. The first “War is Peace”, shows how through constant warfare,the world stays in peace. The wars are meant to consume excess production, keeping the people in a permanent state of impoverishment. Moreover, they kept in a perpetual state of war mentality, willing to give up anything for their country. The second part, “Freedom is Slavery” is their public...
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...Have you ever played a game of telephone? The game where you a sentence starts at one end, and by the time it gets to the end its completely different. In 1984 Big Brother controls everybody’s thoughts in a way by going and changing the past to make themselves seem right, and changing historic numbers whether it’s war numbers, economic numbers, etcetera. Similar to today’s society everything regarding the past is man made or man written. Unless a person lived in the past and was in or around a situation they don't know exactly what happen. Only thing we can go by is what someone tells us or what we read. In 1984 and in today's society every bit of history is tweaked a little every time its is told or written over time, to the point where when it gets to present day it is completely different from the when it actually happened. In the novel, censorship is used to control the citizens of Oceania, because a lot of the information about the past is altered to how Big Brother wants it. This is shown when Winston is writing. “ Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speakwrite which was of course impossible for his present purpose.” Winston’s memory of the past is fuzzy because of the Party’s control and elimination of records in the past and present. Another way Orwell uses censorship in the novel is when Winston is changing the ministry of plenty numbers. “But actually, he thought as he readjusted the...
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...Orwell’s 1984 Totalitarian Regime “Totalitarianism as Orwell saw it, thrives on the blurring of judgement, on vagueness of thought, of feeling, and most of all, of language.” Firstly, the party is stimulated by loyalty; it demands that its people bear every action necessary to pursue a superior Oceania. Loyalty implies the blurring of judgement; accepting without question or hesitation. Party members are loyal to the Party, Big Brother, and Oceania alone. Personal relationships are of no importance. Paradoxically, Winston pledges his loyalty to the Brotherhood but, he also agrees to accept the goals and requirements of the Brotherhood without question or hesitation. Winston agrees to do anything the Brotherhood wants, even if that means murdering innocents. However, he is as well loyal to Julia, and refuses to be separated from her forever. This divided loyalty is what disconnects Winston from the other Party members. Sadly, in the end O’Brien sees this flaw in Winston and successfully removes it using painful physical torture, making blurry Winston’s judgement in account to the perspective towards the party, the party’s perspective is the correct perspective. Using carnivorous rats, loyalty to Julia is also broken. In the end Winston comes to love and be loyal to the party, there is no possible personal judgement that is not blurred out thanks to the party methods. Secondly, the Party destroys all common sense of freedom and individuality. Life is standardized and systematic...
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...There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the color and the texture of the glass. At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone.” (Orwell, 98). Owning this paperweight is particularly appealing to a disillusioned Winston, as it runs contrary to the principles of his government. First, Winston enjoys the paperweight as it represents beauty largely without function.Winston states, “The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness” (98). In life before the Party took over, people were able to enjoy things for the pure pleasure of them. However, after the Party took charge, the Party leader, Big Brother, disallowed pleasure that was not linked to function. This is likely because it encourages what the Party believes is an indulgent lifestyle, individualism and natural selfishness. Furthermore, to the Party, “anything old, and for that matter, anything beautiful, was always vaguely suspect” (98). In its goal of complete erasure of the past, the Party destroyed most antiques, and...
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...1984 George Orwell 1949 Chapter 1 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which...
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...1984 By George Orwell Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. Part One 1984 Chapter 1 I t was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. Inside the flat a fruity...
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...The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ). Did Orwell realise quite what he had done in Nineteen Eighty-Four? His post-publication glosses on its meaning reveal either blankness or bad faith even about its contemporary political implications. He insisted, for example, that his 'recent novel [was] NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)'.(1) He may well not have intended it but that is what it can reasonably be taken to be. Warburg saw this immediately he had read the manuscript, and predicted that Nineteen Eighty-Four '[was] worth a cool million votes to the Conservative Party';(2) the literary editor of the Evening Standard 'sarcastically prescribed it as "required reading" for Labour Party M.P.s',(3) and, in the US, the Washington branch of the John Birch Society 'adopted "1984" as the last four digits of its telephone number'.(4) Moreover, Churchill had made the 'inseparably interwoven' relation between socialism and totalitarianism a plank in his 1945 election campaign(5) (and was not the protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Winston?). If, ten years earlier, an Orwell had written a futuristic fantasy in which Big Brother had had Hitler's features rather than Stalin's, would not the Left, whatever the writer's proclaimed political sympathies, have welcomed it as showing how capitalism, by its very nature, led to totalitarian fascism? With Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is particularly necessary to trust the tale and not...
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