Q15: Explore the connection of ideology with control and/or terror in a selected literary work.

Question 1

What ideas caused “1984”?

Answer 1

It was a reaction to heavily ideological nations after the WW2.

Question 2

What are the division of power in “1984”?

Answer 2

• a party has all the power

- individualism is dead and totalitarism rules

Question 3

How is totalitarianism taken to the extreme in “1984”?

Answer 3

• constant war

- The Party’s grip on the mind (control of information and history, surveillance, physical control)

Question 4

How is terror reflected in “1984”?

Answer 4

• the action of the government
• the control over language
• violence
• imaginary opposition (Emmanuel Goldstein)

Question 5

How is terror reflected in the language?

Answer 5

• Newspeak
• Thought Police
• Censorship
• Propaganda

Question 6

What is the purpose of “1984”?

Answer 6

• an indictment of totalitarian ideology
• serves as a warning
• encourage us to be more aware of and involved in our political system
• expose the dehumanizing qualities of systemic terror