1984

1984

1. dystopian social-science fiction

   • totalitarism
     • 4 Ministries
       • Ministry of Love
       • Ministry of Peace
       • Ministry of Plenty
       • Ministry of Truth
   • mass control/surveillance
     • telescreen
   • 3 superpowers with balance of power
     • Oceania
     • Eurasia
     • Eastasia
     • neverending war to maintain stability

2. George Orwell(Eric Arthur Blair)

3. ingsoc

   • doublethink
     • newspeak
       • language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will
     • process of indoctrination whereby the subject is expected to simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct
   • English Socialism: predominant ideology and philosophy in Oceania

4. main characters

   • Winston Smith
   • Julia
   • O'Brien

5. examination of truth and facts within politics and the way they are manipulated

   • criticism of the Stalin dictatorship
     • book banned in communist Russia

6. production started in 1944

   • published in 1948