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GEORGE ORWELL - Coggle Diagram
GEORGE ORWELL
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THE ARTIST'S DEVELOPMENT
His various experiences abroad contributed to his ability to see his country from the outside, from many differnt poins of view and to judge its srenghts and waeknesses
He chose to reject his background and to estabilidh a separate identity. As a consequence he was receptive to new ideas and impressions: infact he rejected his middle-class background and education in favour of his emotional identification with the working class
Orwell belived that the writer should be independent ( so shouldn't follow a party line) and his aim is to interpret reality
THEMES AND LANGUAGE
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He insited on tolerance, justice and decency in human relationships. He strongly criticised totalitarism and he also talked about violation of liberty, and how to recognise tyranny
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
SETTING
The setting of the novel is Oceania, a large country; and the story take place in London in 1984.
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CHARACTERS
Julia is more pessimistic about the Party and she's in love with Winston which is considered a crime for the party
O'Brien is a member of the Party who tricks Winston and Julia into beliving he's a ember of Brotherhood. He's a mysterious character
Winston Smith: He symbolises the overwhelming sense of loss in the novel; a feeling that beauty and truth belong to the past. He is the last man to belive in human values. Smith is the most common English surname inteat Winston evokes Churchill. He's 39 and physically weak and he experinced alienation from society. He's in love with Julia and he remains loyal to her until his last torture
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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The idea dor the three countries came to Orwell in the same year of the conference of Teheran where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met to coordinate their military strategy against Germany and Japan but also to make important decisions about the post war years
THEMES
Orwell talk about a satire society which destroy fraternity. The dictator is called Big Brother but they doesn't take care of people so in this case whatching means controlling
Memory, decency and mutual trust
PLOT
The novel describes a future world divided into three blocks: Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia.
The oppressive world of Oceania is ruled by "The Party" which is led by a figura called Big Brother (both Stalin and Hitler) and is continuosly at war with the other 2 states.
In order to control peopel's live, the party used Newspeak, an invented a language with a limited numer of words
Free thought, sex and any expression of individuality are forbidden
The protagonist Wistn Smith, illegally buys a diary in which he begins to write his thoughts and memories, addressing them to the future generations
At the "Ministry of Truth" he notices an attractive girl staring at him: her name is Julia. She also proves to have a rebellious attitude and he falls in love with her.
O' Brien tells Wiston about "Brotherhood" which was against the Party, but he's a spy so he arrests Wiston and tortures and brainwashes him for a month. At ast sends him in Room 101 where Wiston is forced to confront with his deepest fear: rats on his head
A DISTOPIAN NOVEL
A dystopia shows a possible future society that is anything but ideal. Orwell established a model of what the world should not become by presenting a frightening picture of the future
The novel doesn't offer a consolation but reveals the author's acute sense of history and his sympahty with the people persecuted and murdered during the totaltarism of the 20th century