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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.

Start of the Book

Thematic Concerns

Dystopian World

Class Struggle

Techniques

Analysis

Context

Oxymoron

Bright - cold day - Oxymoron – starts the third person omniscient narration – authorial descriptive or Winston interpretation.

Setting is in London so that it is reminiscent that a totalitarian wo can occur anywhere and the thre consistently present. Orwell push the idea of democratic socialism, which the government owned economic resources, but there wa still private ownership and democratic system.

Characterizati on

Imagery

Thirteen - Connotation – unlucky, irrational, absurd, militaristic. Swirl of Gritty Dust - Metonymy – a lifeless, exhausted, inhospitable dystopian world. Boiled Cabbage - Soviet Russia Depicts the world already filled with despair and evil.

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge- hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current , turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.

Early in the Book

Thought Control

Asyndeton

Asyndeton, cumulative listing of ideas builds the intensity of the experiences – heightens the hyperbole. 2 mins hate becomes a powerful image to detach the sexual, emotion orgiastic experience from a relationship of human intimacy.

Totalitarianism functions off the leader behind the curtain at whic individuals lack cognitive imperialism.

Description of 2 Minutes of Hate

Orwell mimicked the orgiastic d of a nation into one act of rebel Orwells depiction of the two min hate is a spin on the totalitarian government at which they are unable to foster any true sexua desire within people, at which th explosive act of anger allows th people to have a morsel of desi within them.

Overwhelming sense of Patriotism, Hitler and Mussolini rose to power in their own

The two minutes hate is also an exaggeration of the chauvinistic patriotism that is fueled towards

What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

Individual against the collective identity

Reality Control

Hyperbole

countries very largely because they could grasp onto this fact.

Brother for no reason whatsoev

Contrast of the grace and annihilation. Asyndeton which emphasizes the hyperbole which raises the state. Underlying metaphor of physicality. Golden Country – Ancient time, give a magical element.

Orwell’s own humanity, plays a role in the Work’s construction. critic, Peter Davison, argued tha instead of the title being the las digits of the year in which he fin the book 1948, inverted, it is a number games to a world in wh the falsification of dates had advantages, a date at which a dystopia might reasonable have come into being.

Fercunidity – Shakespeare represents a defiance with free thought, act of rebellion, antonym of newspeak, everything the party hates, as Shakespeare contributes to the English language. Interesting as Stalin rewrote his History. Julia was in the novel producing industry, mechanically – arm strength.

The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroti- cism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it.

Reality Control

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to

Hope and Prosperity

THESIS TO EXPLORE: The height of the parody is that Orwell takes this idea of Stalin, Churchill, to be these paternalistic father figures to the extreme. If the two minutes hate is a sublimation of a sexual act, a substitute, by the time we get to chapter 4. Winston thinks about actual sex; eroticism is the enemy. Sex becomes bureaucratic, disgusting minor operation. Takes away the humanist Winston and the sexual instincts in Winston, where he is also a unreliable narrator. Winston rebellion is tied to Julia, which is contrasted to Katherine, who is not sexual.

Totalitaria nism

Totalitaria nism

Class

Simile

Invert the animalistic connotation of the proles.

Winston and Julia create a rom in a world at which interpersona bonding is inimical to the interes the state. Thus, Sex is not for lo or lust but rather a blow against party, Orwell reveals another stultifying effect of totalitarianism turning the socially unacceptab into an instrument of open rebe “The rebellion of the individual against the State, in 1984 as in is presented as a sexual one, th struggle for instinctual freedom against the enforced conformity an omniscient, omnipotent, etat

The proles are a consistent sym of hope, “The proles are human beings. We are not human bein Prole Women is a symbol of individuality.

pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet ——!

Struggle

The ideal set up by the Par- ty was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans , perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face. The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.

Totalitaria nism

Sometimes it stopped for a few seconds, spread out and resettled its wings, then swelled its speckled breast and

Class Struggle

Metaphor

Sophisticated Vernacular

Dystopian World

Power and Sheer effectiveness, reality was the decaying dingy cities, both sides of the language share the same language features. Asyndeton. Winstein is immune to doublethink. That he can see both sides of the world. That reminds him of the women fiddling with the waste pipe. He is immune to the selfreceding world.

“Orwell shows Winston to be immune to the self-deception of “doublethink”, which established his individual character… In chapter 7, we see Winston can see both “The ideal set up by the party… huge, terrible and glittery” and it’s inverse, “the dingy cities where the underfed people shuffled to and fro – Analysis. “

Individual and the Collective Identity

Tricolon Rhetorical

Romanticism – anti rationale, anti -industrial, veneration/deification of nature, exploration of intense subjectivism.

Each ministry is a pot of irony, w the Ministry of peace – constan effort of war, Love – enforceme law and order, reprogramming o wayward Party members, Plent economic affairs, rationing and destruction of the surplus of goo The paradoxes of the names an slogans and their roots in the doctrines behind Newspeak as most enduring symbols of Orwe Party totalitarianism.

again burst into song. Winston watched it with a sort of vague reverence. For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watch- ing it. What made it sit at the edge of the lonely wood and pour its music into nothingness?

Questions Class Struggle

Romantic Mode – reminiscent of keates – “Ode to Nightingale’ – Intertextuality/strong allusion to the romantic ideas, natural imagery of the bird.

Symbol – bird, inspires them to fuck, song of the bird is a strong symbol of thrusting, song is excessive sensory experience, done for no reason, an orgiastic sensory experience which becomes symbolic of Winston and Julia’s relationship. Outpouring of emotion. Symbol for everything the party isn’t.

Contrasts to the 2 minutes hate, orgiastic – raw passion in a sensory overload. Stalin/Trotsky, orgiastic desire, 2 min hate – appropriates sexual desire, animalistic instinct, create allegiance to the party.

Connotation to Plath – PURE.

‘Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?’ ‘Yes, perfectly.’ ‘I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.’

Sex, Love and Loyalty Totalitaria nism

First Person Intense Dialogue

Women/children swallow uncritically the value of the party. Power of the stories to tell how the world is....