Collective quotes Flashcards
Aim of representing the collective?
If Power structures succeed in inducing a state of unconsciousness in the collective they create a powerful control and unchallenged conformity, constitutes decadence of society and human expression
How does he portray collective experience?
estriction of societal pillars of langauge, expression and culture through use of propaganda, surveillance and meaningless/fake massesof information.
- Colorless Symbolism and propaganda poster motif “ there seemed to be…..
no colour in anything except the posters plastered everywhere” ( Metonym expresses how totalitarian rulers suppress aspects of the human condition that make it ‘colourful in their attempt to gain metaphoric omnipotence.)
Depicts controlling regime through dramatic capitalisation of “BIG …….” and allusion to Stalin in “black…..”
- “BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
- “moustachioed face” highlights the paranoia created in wake of mass surveillance that compels Individuals to conform.
Furthermore, Orwell’s satirical portrayal of ‘Newspeak’ ignites the idea that political indifference erodes self-expression and communication with others in soridid imagery of ….
” We’re destroying words…We’re cutting the language down to the bone”
Orwell cumulates a list of symbols of the expressive domain of the human condition in the symbol of “there will be no…..
art, no literature, no science…when we are omnipotent”, “ illustrating The trademark political harshness of party that marks ‘1984’ and stains Orwell’s depiction of the human condition.
