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1984 Essay - Coggle Diagram
1984 Essay
Thesis idea: colonization of personhood: psychological and physical
phsycial
Prohibiting acts that instigated emotion
Marriage for love
Sex
Controlling emotions: min of hate
Torture
“ no emotion/conviction can overcome corporeal torture”
Watching for signs/twitches
'saviour' of the mind and ill - colonizing behaviour - assimilation
determine ill by the persons reluctance of accepting BBs reality
‘Nervous system is the greatest enemy’
psych
Ruining human relationships
Familial
his family
romantic
Destroying loyalty btwn ppl, the only loyalty allowed is to BB - even did the ultimate betrayal of making winston stop loving julia
sexual
katherine
destroying freedom of thought
controlling lang
"many of Orwell’s ideas about language as a controlling force have been modified by writers and critics seeking to deal with the legacy of colonialism. During colonial times, foreign powers took political and military control of distant regions and, as a part of their occupation, instituted their own language as the language of government and business. Postcolonial writers often analyze or redress the damage done to local populations by the loss of language and the attendant loss of culture and historical connection."
tried to make speech independent of consiousness
consiousness: awareness of ourselves and env / ability to examine experience of life and emotion
Are language and thought dependent or do they exist without each other
some philosophers argue that lang constructs a parameter for your thoughts
(Sapir–Whorf hypothesis)
and others say lang is instinctive (not dependent)
In order to colonize the person BB tries to stop this instinvtive process
in the book, ppl have instincts of survival etc and the party manipulates these insticts with its use of lang - however, in the case of winston this was not enough to assimilate him , with the use of turture he was finally broken down and assimilated into newspeak
conforming into one idea
restricting intelligence
obrian gives him the book that shows the faults, if after showing winston comes to still love BB than he rlly 'healed'
a journy not a destination
tellling winston that its true and learning how to do undo that
false sense of freedom
constant surveillance
Making having an identity hard: not allowed to know age, know if married or not, no info on family, have to dress the same - psychologically hard to be unique, also logistically difficult
BB sees it self as the 'saviour' - psychologically they show their dominance, and try to assimilate ppl - physicality also used to show their dominance, but also brought in to an extreme when ppl are defying them
psychological is the foundation - but for it to be real there is physcial
so what? the physical aspect of body is more in charge and powerful than the psychological ( i'm not sure/i don't like this)
colonization happens on a specturm - a susces
ultimetly trying to understand ppl in totalitarian regime, can understand through 1984 the multitude of ways ppl are colonized and controled - sophisticated regimes have very powerful ways of controling - a solution would have to take this in - rewrite it now many more ways that govs vontrol
can a society ever move past this when it is something they don't understand
warped reality
"past is what whatever records and memories agree upon" - BB controls both - BB controls reality
research: each time you remember memory your experiencing from present, so it does actually change when ppl tell you what you remember
section into different types of ppl and the amount of manipulation they need with a mid of psych and physical