Common Task - Quotes + Analysis Flashcards
Alluding to Stalin, Orwell uses the omnipotent Big Brother…
“black-moustachio’d face”
As a metoynym for authority’s degradation of cultural experience
symbolism of Big Brother is used as…
“guise… to exhibit itself [the Party] to the world”
Symbolism –> to unify the collective love and patriotism of the Party into a singular tangible individual
burlesque Two Minutes Hate, a broth of swirling emotions, conforming the individual to…
“hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness”
Experience + Emotion –> stripping compassion and intricacy
metatextual fabrication…
“Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed… would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar”
Metatextual fabrication
satirical portrayal of Newspeak…
“the official language of Oceania”,
conveyed through Syme who…
“shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
Contrasting Syme’s intelligence, the irony of Syme’s appraisal of censorship exposes the restrictive nature of authority through the shackling of the population to poverty and illiteracy, degrading the collective experience
suffering the ignominy…
“varicose ulcer”
a physical manifestation of Winston’s repressed humanity
Orwell uses a glass paperweight to symbolise Winston’s romantic experiences…
“fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal [coral]”
Orwell continually juxtaposes the dehumanisation of the proles, considered…
“natural inferiors”
to accentuate that in a collectively suppressed society
anomalous Winston holds a resolute hope in the proles although he digresses …
“until they [the proles] become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
Through the use of chiasmus, Orwell constructs a paradoxical statement, underscoring the intrinsic complexities of human behaviour
internal monologue of the persona…
“afraid and uncertain”
olfactory imagery of…
“odour of death”
symptomatic of the self-centred and destructive nature of humanity
Auden considers the…
Auden considers the “neutral air” of the American population as complicit, criticising human selfishness, an “error bred in the bone”, as humanity “craves… not universal love but to be loved alone.”
persona expresses hope in the final stanza, stating…
“may I, composed like them of Eros and of dust,… show an affirming flame.”
quotes for Mnemonic
“Slender memory, stay with me”
Apostrophe – cultivates an emotional atmosphere
“A serious man who devised complex systems of numbers and rhymes to aid him in remembering”
Allusion to the title
“no order to my memory, a heap of details, uncatalogued, illogical”
Mirrors the poetic structure – The poem predominately mimics human speech, lacking the traditional verse form and rhyme scheme, conveying regret and
