1984

Question 1

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four explores the more complex scenario ?

Answer 1

of an oppressive regime that maintains power through propaganda, subtle behavioural controls, and fear

Question 2

written how many years after production of Met?

Answer 2

20 years

Question 3

when written contextually?

Answer 3

after the world had already seen the extremes of fascism and totalitarian regimes such as Hitler’s Nazi Party and Stalin’s regime in Russia

Question 4

what does Orwell create?

Answer 4

a dystopian society of satirical extremes in which every aspect of an individual’s life, including their thoughts, are the subject of control strategies implemented in the name of the oppressive figurehead known as Big Brother

Question 5

close-framed narrative allows ?

Answer 5

the reader to get inside the head of protagonist Winston Smith

Question 6

who is winston Smith

Answer 6

member of the Outer Party of the English Socialist Party in decaying post-revolutionary London, now part of the mega-state of Oceania

Question 7

what is Winston’s main occupation?

Answer 7

rewriting historical records to reflect current party policy represents one extreme manifestation of totalitarian control

Question 8

what does he introduce us to through this activity?

Answer 8

to Doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your head while guiding yourself to believe the one that best fits the principles of Ingsoc, the party doctrine

Question 9

what does it mean to even doubt or question Ingsoc?

Answer 9

dubbed ‘thoughtcrime’, and pursued ruthlessly by the thought police