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The World of 1984 - Coggle Diagram
The World of 1984
Setting
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“Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London” (32).
“Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth century houses, their sides shored up with balks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger path and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses?” (3)
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Ingsoc
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“He did not believe that he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form- “English Socialism,” that is to say- it had indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie” (36).
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Oceania’s Government
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Ministry of Truth
Records Department
The Records Department, the place where Winston works, rectifies the media.
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Oceania’s People
They seem to have numbers. During Physical Jerk, Winston is called as “6079 Smith W” (36).
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Although they live in a place that was once called Britain, they don’t use English. They have developed a language of their own.
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Oceania’s Laws
Thoughtcrime
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It is up to the Thought Police to detect any Thoughtcrime. The citizens of Oceania should also be engaging in reporting any suspicious activity.
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Recording something personally is not allowed. Only the Party and the Ministry of Truth get to write or edit the historical records of Oceania.
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