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1984: SECTION 1, Feminist theory acknowledges the blatant misogyny,, POST…
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Feminist theory acknowledges the blatant misogyny,
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POST MODERNIST THEORY: considers the rewriting of history as a critique of the lack of an objective reality
demonstrates how regimes will manipulate the past in order to materialise a present as a means of defining society into its dystopia values of oppression and the selfishness of power
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'smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasised by the blue overalls'
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'interminable restless monologue that had been running in his head, literally for years'
'he disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones...most bigoted adherents of the Party'
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'Goldstein, the Enemy of the People
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'he wanted to go to bed with her, but would never do so'
'odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity'
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'blue shorts, grey shirts and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies'
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'now that he had recognised himself as a dead man, it became important to stay alive as soon as possible'
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'today there were fear, hatred and pain, but no dignity of emotion'
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'INGSOC, in it's old form, English Socialism'
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'you did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades'
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'Your worst enemy was your own nervous system...tension inside of you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom'
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'if there is hope, it lies in the proles'
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'The Party claimed to have liberated the proles from bondage...were hideously oppressed by capitalists'
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'But in among all this terrible poverty, there were just a few big great beautiful houses...these rich men were called capitalists'
'I understand HOW, I do not understand WHY'
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'to do anything for a taste of solitude was dangerous...ownlife, meaning individuality and eccentricity'
'The older generation had mostly been wiped out...those who survived had long ago been terrified into intellectual surrender'
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'the hunting down and the destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness as the prole quarters as anyone else'
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SCHELLENBERG: this Big Brother society is too-well structured to break apart in the face of one man's resistance'
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MEYERS: 1984 expresses our archetypal fears of isolation and disintegration, bestiality, cruelty and dehumanisation'
MEYERS: Orwell is also concerned with the inner psychic frontier at which man can be broken and made to betray'
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BERKES: Language becomes a method of mind control with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination
CRICK: [Big Brother] is the configuration of the friendly into the threatening...a perfect piece of doublethink
ASIMOV: Orwell presents three ways of maintaining an eternal tyranny: the immortality of Big Brother, the presence of someone or something to hate, and rewriting history
ATWOOD: [Winston is] an orphan, a child of the collectivity
FOCAULT: The panopticon of living in a world of surveillance stands for the modern world in which we are bearers of our own figurative mental improsonment'
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GROSSMAN: Technology exists as a tool for stagnation, rather than progression
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