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Nineteen Eighty-Four - Coggle Diagram
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Subject
Life in a big totalitarian system, Oceania
(North America, South Africa, Australia).
Airstrip One, a future England, is an outpost
of Oceania.
Structure
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Introduction of the protagonist, Winston Smith,
in this oppressive world.
Setting
London, in the mythical country of Oceania, 1984
(in the future).
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An anti-utopian novel
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No privacy:
TELESCREEN
“[…] an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Any sound […] would be picked by it” (Chapter 1)
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The Party provides for everything:
“..some necessary article which the Party
shops were unable to supply” (Chapter 5)
Punishment against the rebels:
“I have it in my power to inflict pain on you at any moment and to whatever degree I choose” (Chapter 2)
Newspeak
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Aim: to eliminate literature, thoughts
and consciousness.
Doublethink
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Doublethink makes people believe that the Party is the only institution that knows right from wrong.
The Ministry of Truth (where Winston works) changes history, facts, and memories to promote Doublethink -> historical reference to Stalin’s will to change history.
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Characters: Big Brother
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Big Brother’s God-like image is stamped on coins and projected on telescreens -> his gaze is unavoidable.
Characters: Julia
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She is a beautiful dark-haired woman who enjoys sex and claims she had affairs with many Party members.
She is optimistic and her rebellion is small and personal.
Suzanna Hamilton as Julia in Michael Radford’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).
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Style and tone
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Pessimistic tone
No consolation, but cruel reality.
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Documentary realism:
“his body was being wrenched out of shape, the joints were being slowly torn apart” (Chapter 2)
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