Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1984 From A Marxist Perspective
- Class Struggles
- Sections of Society
- 2% "Inner Party"
- Privilidged
- Bourgeoisie
- 13% "Outer Party"
- Arguably a part of the proletariat.
- 85% "Proles"
- Marxist idea that the
proletariat have no influence
over society.
- Proletariat overthrow Bourgeoisie in times of
economic crisis
- "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the Proles"
- The social
composition of society
is revealing
- Ideologies
- Shown Through Propaganda
- The party has tricked the lower members in society
(particularly the proles) and convinced them that Big
Brother's controlling ways is beneficial to them
- Ministry of Truth recreates history
to show the Party in a positive light.
- "Nothing exists except an endless present
in which the party is always right"
- Marxist idea of ending history as a whole
- The party sells the idea of "Junior Spies" by
painting it in a away that makes people think
that it's the best way to raise their children. In
reality, it's a further way of controlling them.
- In keeping with the Marxist idea that
those in control of the means of
production (capitalists) shape the rest of
society.
- Message of 1984
- Written in 1949
- If totalitarianism is
not oppressed,
aspects of the novel
could be reality.
- Author's Aims
- According to Marxism, an author's social standing has
a strong influence on their work.
- Orwell described himself as coming from an
lower-upper-middle class family.
- His grandparents were wealthy but the prosperity
did not pass through the generations.
- Control Over Society
- Ingsoc = Totalitarian society
- 100% of the lives of the
outer party is subject to
surveillance.
- Any sign deviation leads to
potential vaporisation.
- "Your one-time existence was
denied and forgotten."
- How capitalism controlled
society = Manipulated them
through Fear.
- No laws actually set.
Unspoken rules based on
general fear.
- Thought police work off
fear to cause more fear
- War
- In believing there was a war, they (the
outer party" were manipulated to accept
less money and luxuries from the
government.
- Ministry of Plenty
- Each action the party (capitalist) takes to control
society strengthens them.
- gain power through wealth