Transcript 1984

George Orwell
Terms to Know
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dystopia – “an imaginary place where people lead
dehumanized and often fearful lives; anti-utopia”
 “An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or
bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one”
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oligarchy – “government by the few; a government in which
a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and
selfish purposes”
socialism – “any of various economic and political theories
advocating collective or governmental ownership and
administration of the means of production and distribution
of goods; a system of society or group living in which there
is no private property”
propaganda – “the spreading of ideas, information, or
rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a
cause, or a person”
1984 Terms to Know
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“INGSOC”
“telescreen”
“unperson”
“newspeak”/”oldspeak”
“thoughtcrime”
“doublethink”
“facecrime”
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“proles”
“Golden Country”
“Oceania”
“Eastasia”
“Eurasia”
“Two Minutes
Hate”/”Hate Week”
“orthodox”/”unorthodox”
Characters
Winston
 Julia
 O’Brien
 Charrington
 Syme
 Katharine
 Parsons
 Emmanuel Goldstein
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Part One Questions
1. Language/Logic, Setting: What does the opening sentence
(“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
striking thirteen”) suggest about the book?
2. Irony/Paradox, Language/Logic: What are the Party mottos?
What is unusual about them?
3. Language/Logic, Theme: What is Newspeak? What is its
purpose?
4. Language/Logic: Who is Big Brother, and what is the
significance of his name?
5. Language/Logic: What is facecrime? Why is it so easy to
commit?
6. Theme, Irony/Paradox: How does the Party control history?
Why?
7. Plot, Theme: Who is Emmanuel Goldstein, and how is he
presented to the people of Oceania? What is the probable
significance of using the obviously Jewish name?
Part Two Questions
8. Character: In what ways are Julia and Winston alike?
In what ways are they different?
9. Theme: Why does the Party permit couples to marry
but discourage love?
10. Plot: O’Brien asks Winston and Julia what they are
willing to do for the Brotherhood. What are they
willing to do? What is the one thing they are unwilling
to do?
11. Plot: Why are the three superpowers always at war
according to the Brotherhood’s handbook?
12. Plot, Irony/Paradox: How are Winston and Julia
betrayed?
Part Three Questions
13. Character, Irony/Paradox: How does Parsons feel about
being imprisoned as a result of his own daughter
reporting him for thoughtcrime?
14. Theme, Plot: Before Winston is interrogated, he sees
many prisoners escorted to Room 101. From their
reactions, he gathers the room is extremely unpleasant.
What is in Room 101?
15. Plot: When and in what way does Winston betray Julia?
16. Plot: Why does O’Brien say prisoners are brought to the
Ministry of Love?
17. Plot: What happens to Julia?
18. Theme, Irony/Paradox: How does Winston ultimately feel
about Big Brother?
Propaganda
“A new poster had suddenly appeared all over
London. It had no caption, and represented simply
the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or
four metres high, striding forward with
expressionless Mongolian face and enormous
boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. From
whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle
of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed
to be pointed straight at you. The thing had been
plastered on every blank space on every wall, even
outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother” (Part II,
Chapter V)
Propaganda
“On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions,
the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the
posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and
squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the
grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed
planes, the booming of guns — after six days of this, when
the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general
hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the
crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian warcriminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of
the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them
to pieces — at just this moment it had been announced that
Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at
war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally” (Part II, Chapter IV).
Activity
Create a political cartoon that may
have appeared in a secret publication of
the Brotherhood or a highly publicized
publication of the Party. (Do not simply
recreate a Big Brother poster.) Use
contemporary political cartoons from
newspapers and magazines as models.
See the handout for detailed instructions
and a grading rubric.
Examples of Propaganda
DISCLAIMER:
The following imagers are simply
examples of propaganda. The teacher is
in no way advocating any particular
political party, ideal, or product.
http://3rdpartyblogger.com/political-cartoons/political-cartoons-2/
Camel
Cigarettes
Propaganda
WWII
Propaganda