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The dystopian novel - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He was born in 1903 in India. His father was a british colonial official. He studied at Eton(school). He served in the Indian Imperial Police and then he returned to England where he started a social experiment(short periods in poor lodging houses among down-and-outs). He also spent time in Paris and when he returned he published his first book(Down and out in Paris and London). It was followed by Burmese days. 1936, Orwell marries Aileen and a left wing publisher gave him a commission to carry out a survey about miners conditions. After this he went to Catalonia to report on the Spanish Civil War, where he joined the POUM. 1941, he became a commentator of the BBC and in 1943 he resigned as a literary editor of "The Tribune". 1945, animal farm was published. 1949, 1984 was published.
  - - - he declared himself atheist and after 1930 he considered himself a socialist
        
        writer=indipendent from parties, because it had the social function of informing, interpreting and warning.
        
        in his experiments he rejected his middle-class background and emotionally identified with workers. His pseudonym was a way to escape from his class.
  - - - The future world is divided in 3 blocks: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Oceania is ruled by "the Party" led by a figure called "Big Brother". His goal is to control people using telescreens, helicopters, the thought police and it was even invented Newspeak. Free expression or individuality is forbidden. Winston Smith, a former journalist employed by the Ministry of Truth, writes his historical records in a diary. His rebellion gain impetus when he encounters Julia. They are discovered from police and subject to torture and brainwashing in Room 101. Their will and resistance breaks and they're released.
    - - Squallid and menacing London, controlled by Big Brother. There's no privacy, love is forbidden, but there's a "Two Minutes Hate", history, language and thought are manipuled.
    - - Last man to believe in human values in a totalitarian era
        
        Smith=most common english surname. Winston=evocation of Churchill's patriotic appeals during WWII
        
        Winston is middle-aged, phisically weak and has a desire for spiritual and moral integrity and experiences alienation from society
    - - Third-person narrator.
      - switch between Winston's and the narrator's point of view
      - language is clear and concise
    - - totalitarism's threat
      - censorship and the denial of objective truth
      - the importance of language in shaping opinions
      - the danger of suppression for any form of dissent
      - preservation of memory
- - - - Persuasive techniques: for modern ideas - against modernity
      - Imaginary society: perfect(moral) - merely perfected in social sense
      - World: positive - blackest picture
    - - people are divided by: intellect, ability, class
        
        social groups are under the State's government
        
        Individuals are powerless, paranoic, controlled by computers and betrayed or manipulated by philosophic or religious ideology and the media.
        
        the dystopian hero questions the system, his aim is either to escape or to destroy the society's leaders, but he usually fails.
        
        the dystopian novel is a valid way to criticize modern societies.