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1984 (George Orwell (Nazi Party and Joseph Stalin links, KGB ( "The…
1984
George Orwell
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1984 A warning for future generations, learn from history
Nazi Party and Joseph Stalin links, KGB
"The black mustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner" - links to Hitler and Stalin's moustache
"Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia" , Russia and America arms race to the moon, China was still at civil war- Mao Tse-Tung
Orwell was seriously ill with tuberculosis during the writing of this novel - reflects his dystopian novel
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Themes
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Love and sexuality
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Winston and Julia
Meet in secret, get the train , evade microphones and telescreens
Katharine believed that it was their duty to have sex to create a baby for the Party and so she embraced the act as a chore. She would refer to it as "making a baby" and "our duty to the Party"
Party's "real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act"
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Division in society
Proles, Outer Party and Inner Party
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Proles- constitute 85% of society, working class, bottom of the class of society, left to their work, starvation,war,pornographic materials and
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"women had been forced to work in the coal mines" . "children had been sold into the factories at the age of six" - page 82
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Inner Party
"Below Big Brother comes the inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population"
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Key Quotes
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"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles"
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself"
Critics/ Interpretations
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Neologism- Thoughpolice, minitrue, newspeak, hate week
Third person, Limited Omniscient- told from Winstons perspective