Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1984
- George Orwell
- Dystopian type novel
- Censorship
- Surveillance
- Published in 1949
- Airstrip One - Great Britain
- Oceania
- Perpetual war, omnipresent
government surveillance and public
manipulation
- Newspeak-governments
invented language
- "2+2=5"
- Thought Police
- "Under the
Spreading Chestnut
Tree"
- "Breaking the language down to the bone"
Changing phrases into a word - newspeak.
"Minustry of truth" > MiniTrue
- George Orwell was trying to warn us with his creation
of this novel. It s his prediction for the horrible future.
- Positive Nationalism
- Oceanian's perpetual love for
Big Brother - Celtic nationalism
and British Israelis' are defined
by love (as Orwell argues)
- Negative Nationalism
- Oceanians' perpetual hatred for Emmanual Goldstein; Stalinism,
Anglophobia and anitsemitism are (as Orwell argues) defined by hatred.
- Two minutes of hate - Short pep-talks given to
workers before their shifts began. Screaming
and angry phrases yelled at to the screen
- Futurology
- In the book, Inner party
member O'Brien describes the
Party's vision of the future.
- "There will be no curiosity, no
enjoyment of the process of life. All
competing pleasures will be destroyed.
Always there will be intoxication of
power"