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1984 AO5 - Coggle Diagram
1984 AO5
Political
Glenn Greenwald: Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name
Bernard Crick: 1984 is a warning not a prophecy, a cry of danger not despair
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Tom Moylan: it uses the portrait of a nightmare future in order to launch a political critique of the present
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Irving Howe: One of the 'terrifying things about totalitarian society is that it systematically destroys social memory'...'For in such a society there is no longer a sense of the past: man is deprived of his ancestors.
K.Grossman: Technology exists as a tool for stagnation, rather than for progress.
Winston and Julia
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Thomas Horan: Julia perhaps naively believes they can beat the party at its own game behind masks of seeming loyalty
Irving Howe: the feeling of sexual desire, because then you'll have another loyalty, other than that of the party. They want to destroy natural human instincts
Oceania seeks to destroy spontaneous affection because that, too, is subversive
M.Throp: [Winston's] struggle is not impaired by physical force, but by the more subtle means of creating intellectual disorientation
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Women
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Daphne Patai: his deformed attitude towards women in Orwell's personality and writing is so grotesque
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