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| Negative Utopian (Dystopian) Fiction |
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Third Person, Limited (Winston)
reader is outside of the story |
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| Winston's experience in Room 101 with the rats |
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| Winston in the Chestnut Tree Cafe after his release from the Ministry of Love & his meeting with Julia |
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Winston's dreams (making love to Julia in the Golden Country and meeting O'Brien in the "place where there is no darkness")
St. Clement's Church Song ("Here comes a chopper to chop off your head!") |
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| Dark, Frustrated, & Pessimistic |
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The psychological, technological, physical, and social dangers of totalitarianism and political authority
the importance of language in shaping human thought |
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Urban decay (London is falling apart under the Party's leadership)
doublethink (the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one's mind at the same time and believe them both to be true) |
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Glass Paperweight (Winston's desire to connect with the past)
Red-Armed Prole Woman (hope that the proles will one day rise against the Party)
Picture of St. Clement's Church (the past)
Telescreens & Pics of BB (the Party's constant surveillance)
"the place where there is no darkness" (Winston's tendency to mask his fatalism with false hope because it goes from being a paradise to a prison cell) |
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| What type of irony is used in the novel when the reader can see the dangers that Winston cannot? |
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| How long does the novel last? |
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| What month does the story start? |
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| April (a time of rebirth, but the atmosphere is dirty, bitter, and filled with fear; contrasts with Golden Country that he dreams about) |
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| Political Parable, Satire, Dystopia |
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| moral can be drawn; abuse of power by totalitarian regime destroys the individual |
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| warns the need to resist tyranny; falsification of reality and manufacturing heros and scapegoat's for propaganda |
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| cold/hot wars, authoritarian dictators, men at mercy of things he can't control |
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| Winston's drab, lonely life |
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| Attempts to give life meaning |
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| Structure & Purpose of Newspeak |
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