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Comparative arguments updated (Psychological impact of Totalitarianism…
Comparative arguments updated
Psychological impact of Totalitarianism
warps history and sense of reality
The Party Slogans
"Party could thrust its hand into the past"
"It never happened"
"memory hole"
"no other copies existed to contradict it"
W. "varicose ulcer" the need for the journal
Julia fell between the "GDR's fiction and Reality"
Herr Bohnsack "fallen between two stools"
Physical destruction of documents "feeding files into the fire"
"black smoke hung over him"
suppression of natural instincts (loss of intimacy)
nomenclature of Oceania: "Smith W. 6079" "comrades"
Repression the sex instinct "eradicated" "duty to the party" "cut links"
A dance, used to depict a couple through “sexless” and “hipless” moves, they resemble “teapots” as they are stiff and uncomfortably moving in synchronization
Julia's love letters "evaluated her life in progress" privacy
Unity through compliance or rebellion
Winston and Julia forced into compliance; Winston brainwashed
Reduced to the "last man" "skeleton - like thing" "creature" "bag of filth"
"free will"
Miriam's gradual subtle recovery
Frau Paul strong despite all; refuses to be "bought"
“theirs forever; a stool pigeon and a tame little rat”(220) - dignity owing to her private rebellion
Redefining what is means to interact (loss of intimacy and empathy)
Much less overt
A dance, used to depict a couple through “sexless” and “hipless” moves, they resemble “teapots” as they are stiff and uncomfortably moving in synchronization
"multimedia centre"
Julia "soul buckled out of shape forever"
"invasion of my intimate sphere"
Julia taking a long time to warm up to Funder: "unlocked" door; revisiting Anna to "water the plants" "long story"
Winston Smith’s co-worker Syme revels in its construction as he proclaims “it’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words” as it aims to reduce the “range of consciousness” “a little smaller”.
W. awakes from dreaming of Julia "Shakespeare on his lips"
IMPACT inability to interact genuinely "I betrayed you" - deepest level of loyalty is destroyed
Meeting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, they both admit “[they] had meant it” and that it doesn’t “feel the same” anymore
Capacity for individuals to resist
Alteration of history and reality and purpose: to disorientate
The Party Slogans
"Party could thrust its hand into the past"
"It never happened"
"memory hole"
"no other copies existed to contradict it"
W. "varicose ulcer" the need for the journal
Julia fell between the "GDR's fiction and Reality"
Herr Bohnsack "fallen between two stools"
Physical destruction of documents "feeding files into the fire"
"black smoke hung over him"
Threat of betrayal through surveillance
"mistrust was the foundation[s] of social existance" "intense and overt" Informers, Major N "everyone suspected everyone"
Julia "soul buckled out of shape forever"
"invasion of my intimate sphere" Major N
Julia feeling unsafe (her trust issues)
Mrs Parsons "dust in the creases of her face" "the look of helpless fright"
"crushed looking"
Telescreens "beating of [one's] heart" "breathing" "facial expressions"
Different degrees of resistance
Klaus, his own form of "victory" "I didn't let them get to me"
The Turning "we are the people" "democracy now"
The betrayal "I betrayed you" - deepest level of loyalty
Julia and WInston's betrayal "own free will"
The Prole Woman "Normal pillar" "mystical reverence" to BB "enormous face gazed from the wall"
"alone, free the human is always being defeated"
Restriction of individual freedoms
Freedom of thought
"meet in the place where there is no darkness"-an invasion of mental thought
thought police "vaporized"
"reality exists in the human mind"
Freedom of privacy
Mrs Parsons "dust in the creases of her face" "the look of helpless fright"
"crushed looking"
Telescreens "beating of [one's] heart" "breathing" "facial expressions"
"mistrust was the foundation[s] of social existance" "intense and overt" Informers, Major N "everyone suspected everyone"
Julia "soul buckled out of shape forever"
"invasion of my intimate sphere" Major N
Julia feeling unsafe (her trust issues)
Freedoms of interaction
Infiltration of Newspeak - Syme "its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words"
"range of consciousness always a little smaller"
W. awakes from dreaming of Julia "Shakespeare on his lips"
IMPACT inability to interact genuinely "I betrayed you" - deepest level of loyalty is destroyed
Much less overt
The Lipsi "hipless camels" "sexless" "teapots" "multimedia centre"
Julia "soul buckled out of shape forever"
"invasion of my intimate sphere"
Julia taking a long time to warm up to Funder: "unlocked" door; revisiting Anna to "water the plants" "long story"
Fallibility of Humankind
Willingness to inflict pain; disconnection from empathy
“Object of torture is torture” “making him suffer” “progress” “more pain”
Perceiving Winston as the “last man” “that is humanity”
Hohenschönhausen, apparatus that "yoke[s]" the person in place "drifting between consciousness and drowning"
"icy water up to the neck"
Ungoverned lust for power
Majoy N, undermining for the sake of fear and torture, reveling in it
"exaggeratedly polite" "evaluated her life in progress" "aloud"
"NIGHTMARES like i have never had before or since" "pursueing" in a "familiar place"
"ultimate purpose" "the object of power is power"
Everything has a function- to direct attention and adoration to the party
"cut links" The Red armed Prole woman "mystical reverence" "300 million people with the same face"
Expose the Cruelty of those in power
Separation and isolation of relationships
Infiltration of Newspeak - Syme "its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words"
"range of consciousness always a little smaller"
W. awakes from dreaming of Julia "Shakespeare on his lips"
IMPACT inability to interact genuinely "I betrayed you" - deepest level of loyalty is destroyed
Julia "soul buckled out of shape forever"
"invasion of my intimate sphere"
Julia taking a long time to warm up to Funder: "unlocked" door; revisiting Anna to "water the plants" "long story"
Torsten and Frau Paul "the child of [her] dreams" "life threatening"
"tears rolled down her face and she mops them up"
"they taught him to speak" "they tried to teach him how to walk" - Nurses +Doctors in the West "stranger"
"he didn't know what a mother was"
"terrible distance"
Cruelty can be overcome in some cases
Watching others suffer/willingness to inflict suffering
Hohenschönhausen, apparatus that "yoke[s]" the person in place "drifting between consciousness and drowning"
"icy water up to the neck"
“Object of torture is torture” “making him suffer” “progress” “more pain”
Perceiving Winston as the “last man” “that is humanity