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1984 Quote Bank Context: - George Orwell has a particular hatred with the widespread allegiance to Stalinism evident in the Russian Regime of his time and the anarchy of Hitlers Regime. Experiences: • Love • Loneliness • Fear • Hope • Hate •Indoctrination Psychological manipulation Quote “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull” (Winston) CONTRASTS QUOTE “The hypnotic eyes gazed upon his own/something that penetrated inside your skull.” (Narrator) “Preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100” (Winston) “In the place where there is no darkness” (O’Brien) “Lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster”

Disempowerment of humanity Quote “Any sound that Winston made above a level of a very low whisper would be picked up by it”(Narrator) “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious”(Winston) “The past had not been merely altered, it has been actually destroyed” “In this game that we’re playing we can’t win. Some kinds of failures are better than others” (Winston) “The fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on”(Narrator)

Analysis The irony is in the fact that even your brain could be manipulated by the totalitarian regime. Personification of the hypnotic eyes The ‘skull’ symbolises his humanity being taken from him Paradox as they have achieved happiness knowing their fate. Symbolism of death. Foreshadows Winston’s torturing by O’brien. Winston is the inconsistency in society

Techniques • Irony • Hyperbole

Paradox Symbolism Metaphor

Analysis Winston is aware of his lack of humanity and self-empowerment

Techniques Auditory Imagery

Orewell saying humanity is passive e.g Stalinism and Hitler era. Paradox between rebelling and humanities consciousness. Ironic as Winston is part of the Party and he rewrites history

PARADOX

Irony

Winston is swerving in and out of hope as he is not sure if he can escape his old life. This simile foreshadows the pairs Simile death. Foreshadowing

Individual vs Collective experiences Quote “He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”

“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but against one’s own body” “The process of life had ceased to be intolerable” (Winston)

Hope Quote “smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age”

“If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones” “To die hating them, that was freedom.”

Analysis • This quote combines both Winston’s individual experience with the fate of humanity. • The word unimaginable is an ironic representation of the future as ‘thought crime’ was actually a punishable offense and it involved imagining a different society. • Winston’s individual experience

Techniques •Truncated sentence •Irony • Personifying the past

Analysis Techniques The high modality language used and • Sensual Imagery the glimmer of colour in a society • High Modality dominated by juxtaposed images of “no colour…except the posters” conveys Winston is an anomaly in this totalitarian society. Paradox from Julia to give Winston Paradox hope Anomaly in collective society Anomaly

Short Essay Draft: Humans by default are individuals that are capable of perpetuating harm AND being beacons of kindness. These variations and inconsistencies reveal the human experience to be complex, and cannot be readily defined nor justified. This notion is explored through George Orwell’s 1949 novel “1984” and …………………………. which highlight the complexity of

both individual and collective experiences through the portrayal of disempowerment, love, hatred and fear. George Orwell’s 1984 reveals the complexity of the individual experience of disempowerment, through the suppression of autonomy and the subduing of human agency at the hands of a totalitarian regime. The complexity is explored through the protagonist’s desire to utilise human agency to exercise the cathartic power of the written word through the possession of a diary. Orwell employs sensual visual imagery of, “smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age” to highlight Winston’s desire to possess the diary in a society dominated by juxtaposed images of “no colour…except the posters” in conjunction with high modality to highlight Winston as a societal anomaly, due to the inconsistency of his individual experience in relation to the totalitarian society of Oceania. As a result, Orwell can evoke a perplexed reaction from the readers, effectively enticing the audience to question their perspective on the world they live in. Furthermore, Winston’s disempowerment is further epitomized through the prohibition of human agency in a totalitarian society, as “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull” signifying through the vivid visual imagery and hyperbolic language used, the apparent dangers of having individual thoughts. Effectively providing a valuable paradox as a role of government is to organize and protect the people, and not oppress them. Orewell conveys the complexity of hatred in the teo minutes hate as the collective is powerless to resist the psychological indoctrination of the party. As for “Winston 1. chanting always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise…”. Orewell utilized “Winston's paradoxical motives to reveal to the audience he reluctantly conforms to societal expectations in order not to be found as a societal anomaly. Furthermore, Orewell represents the complexity of hatred as “A group of people broke into rhythmic chants of ‘B-B!...B-B!’—” Orewell’s utilisation of a collective pronoun evokes an inclusive symbolism of the collective, whereby high modality diction coupled with the truncated repetition of ‘B’ symbolises the rhythmic pattern of a beating heart, signifying the unity of the collective. Orewell further employs the paradox of through purging hate for Goldstein, love and admiration for Big Brother has resulted. This results in the audience understanding the manipulative methods of control used by totalitarian governments and the individual's inability to resist.

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