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foreshadowing 1984

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“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
-telescreens, the Thought Police, and the siblings spying on the parents

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foreshadowing ADH

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It would upset our mutual relations altogether; our beautiful happy home would no longer be what it is now.
the strange man won’t do mother any harm.

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hyperbole 1984
danger of totalitarianism

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a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting three hundred million people all with the same face.

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hyperbole 1984
W’s rebellion

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The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see

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1984 party’s slogan
paradox

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war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength
2 plus 2 makes five

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conflict
retorical question

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‘Why should it be? And if it were, what difference would that make?

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1984
abuse of power
personification

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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

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imagery ADH
female entrapment
materialization

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Nora. Here is shelter for you; here I will protect you like a hunted dove that I have saved from a hawk’s claws; I will bring peace to your poor beating heart.

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irony ADH
awakening

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No, no, I won’t look at it. The whole thing shall be nothing but a bad dream to me.
we are saved!

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dramatic irony
gender role

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But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves.
Nora: Millions of women have done it.

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gender role ADH
direct address

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Oh, I often got so tired, so tired. But it was great fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man.

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metaphor ADH
name
gender role

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“my squirrel”
“my little skylark”
our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child;

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13
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ADH mood

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sympathetic, tragic, ironic, and highly satiric

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1984 mood

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satirical, sarcastic and ironic at times, intense during love affairs.

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symbolism
1984
Big Brother

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“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
ominous rulers
omnipresent eyes of the party

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symbolism
1984
telescreens

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Party’s constant monitoring of its subjects
dual capability to blare constant propaganda and observe citizens
abuse of tech

17
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proles 1984

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if there is hope, it lies in the proles.

18
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new speak 1984

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“designed to diminish the range of thoughts”
eliminates or alter certain words

19
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1984 rebellion(sex)

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the sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. desire was thoughtcrime.

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obrien
danger of totalitarian

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who controls the past controls the future. who controls the future controls the past.

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marginalized society 1984

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perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
“he was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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marginalized society ADH

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Just unspeakably empty, no one to live for anymore.

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symbol macaroons ADH

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“i would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to”
control, power imbalance
deceit, imprisonment

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tarantella-ADH

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nora’s inner passion.
“dancing as ur life depended on it”

25
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dramatic irony-deceit-ADH

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because an atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons every corner of the home.

26
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diary 1984

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down with big brother

27
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syme 1984

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works for newspeak
too intelligent

28
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1984 memory and the past

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But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux occurring against no
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth.
The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist?