Satire

Satire

1. nothing victorious or mansion-like about Victory Mansions. In addition, the tobacco often falls out of Victory cigarettes, and Victory coffee is regarded as generally tasting terrible.

   • Victory' is a positive term, indicating superiority over something. By using this label for sub-par products, Orwell is satirizing the propaganda that was seen throughout WWII. This propaganda also used buzzwords like 'victory' to give the illusion of positive superiority, regardless of the actual state of things

2. The Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, the Ministry of Truth with lies and propaganda, and the Ministry of Peace with war.

   • positive and happy terms are used to disguise the negative things that are actually associated with the Ministries

3. satirize the fanaticism and blind stupidity possible in people as a group

   • He does this through the blind acceptance of Party members of anything the Party says. No matter how ridiculous or clearly false it is,
     • Oceania changes who it is at war with, which it does every few years. Whoever they are currently at war with, people believe that is who they have always been at war with
     • Hate week, for example, is a big event in Oceania. The citizens prepare for it like Christmas. Instead of jolly songs with family and friends over punch, Hate week is celebrated with fists in the air while chanting about death,
     • War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
       • eroded truth and the meaning of words.
       • It glories it contradictions and boasts of them
         • Double think
         • It spies on its citizens and enforces conformity to its rules
           • It helps its members betray each other so that it can brainwash them and ensure they fully believe its lies
       • Put forwards one set of ideals while implementing another
     • This is shown when the character Wilson reads a school textbook; the book states that life before the dictatorship was “dark” and “miserable“ but after life became “glorious” and “beautiful”. The textbook goes further by attacking capitalism, stating that capitalists were “fat, ugly men with wicked faces” who “owned everything in the world”, treating all those under them like slaves. This extremely bias textbook directly mocks the one sided views that the ruling party has and how everyone else most conform to their ideas.

4. "Ingsoc" represented Attlee's socialism

5. The rapid change into extraordinary brutality from an apparently civilised society - as, for example, the massacre at Srebrenica of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs in the former Yugoslavia in 1995 - shows Atwood's awareness of how easily our way of life could at any time be horrifically transformed.

6. Totalitarianism

   • Soviet communism
   • Big brother resembles hitler and stalin
   • Warning
     • Frighten us

7. Satire on contemporary Britian

   • A world of shortages
     • Post war Britain
       • Target of 1945-51 government
       • Nationalising important industries
   • Rationining
   • Nationalisation
   • Bureaocracy
   • Sexual Repression
   • obsessive and hopeless gambling

8. Totalitarianism = secularisation of religious aspirations

   • Attempt to create a heaven on earth
   • God is replaced by Big Brother
     • In the 2 minutes hate she calls BB her saviour and prays to him
   • The telescreen is the all seeing eye of God
   • The party members are saved