1984

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Mind Map on 1984, created by katyx.13 on 08/25/2014.
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1984
  1. George Orwell
    1. Dystopian type novel
      1. Censorship
        1. Surveillance
      2. Published in 1949
        1. Airstrip One - Great Britain
          1. Oceania
          2. Perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation
            1. Newspeak-governments invented language
              1. "2+2=5"
                1. Thought Police
                  1. "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree"
                  2. "Breaking the language down to the bone" Changing phrases into a word - newspeak. "Minustry of truth" > MiniTrue
                  3. George Orwell was trying to warn us with his creation of this novel. It s his prediction for the horrible future.
                    1. Positive Nationalism
                      1. Oceanian's perpetual love for Big Brother - Celtic nationalism and British Israelis' are defined by love (as Orwell argues)
                      2. Negative Nationalism
                        1. Oceanians' perpetual hatred for Emmanual Goldstein; Stalinism, Anglophobia and anitsemitism are (as Orwell argues) defined by hatred.
                          1. Two minutes of hate - Short pep-talks given to workers before their shifts began. Screaming and angry phrases yelled at to the screen
                        2. Futurology
                          1. In the book, Inner party member O'Brien describes the Party's vision of the future.
                            1. "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"
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