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George Orwell (1903-1950). Life and works 1984 Influences, cultural impact. He was born as Eric Arthur Blair His father, Richard, was a colonial servant His mother, Ida is from Burma He has 2 sisters. 1903, Mohitari (India). education. Parish school in Henley St Cyprian shool - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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George Orwell (1903-1950)
1. Life and works
2. 1984
3. Influences, cultural impact
1903, Mohitari (India)
He was born as Eric Arthur Blair
His father, Richard, was a colonial servant
His mother, Ida is from Burma
He has 2 sisters
education
Parish school in Henley
St Cyprian shool Wellington and
Eton Collage
back to India
In 1922 he returned to India where he joined the Indian Imperial Police
(standing 3rd from the left)
… England again…
In 1927 he returned to England
London, Notting Hill
He settled down in Notting Hill.
He lived in poverty, sometimes homeless, sometimes doing itinerant work
1933, Down and outin Paris and London
… from 1933 he is using his pen name.
George is the patron saint of England,
while the River Orwell in Suffolk was one of his most beloved English sites
1937, Spain - militia
Sympathizer of the Independent Labour Party
Joined to POUM
World War II and after
reviews for the
New English Weekly
BBC Eastern Service
editor of Tribune
family First wife: Eileen
O'Shaughnessy
Adopted child: Richard Horatio Blair
Second wife: Sonia Brownell
homage to Catalonia
The Road to Wigan Pier
1945, Animal Farm
1948, his best-known work is publised
1950, died in tuberculosis
19841984George Orwell
Animal farm (1945) allegorical short story reflects events leading
up to and during the Stalin era before World War II
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others„
1948 1984
history
written on the Scottish island of Jura between 1947–48, despite being critically tubercular
On December 4, 1948, he sent the final manuscript to the Secker and Warburg editorial house that published Nineteen Eighty-Four on 8 June 1949
The Last Man in Europe was one of the original titles for the novel, but his publisher Fredric Warburg recommended a change in the title
choosing the title 1948 19⇒ 84 allusion to the title of the poem
"End of the Century, 1984" (1934) by Orwell's first and then wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy
G. K. Chesterton's novel also set in a future London of 1984, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
Jack London novel The Iron Heel (1908)
utopia/anti-utopia/dystopia
Utopia: is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean
Anti-utopia: intended to be utopia but fallen Dystopia: is the idea of a society in a repressive
and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian (Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
general features of dystopia Undesirable society Set in the future Criticism of current society Extremely bad life
conditions Form of allegory or parable
and may contain moral issues
fears and distresses of post-war English society WWII effects: strike on the
English moral, economy (invasion, Nazism, etc.)
The loss of the British Empire and leading role in the World
The fall of the middle class society The increase of the government’s
power in the society/erosion of a personal autonomy (Labour won the election)
Fear of mass culture/uniform society (communism)
background
Story takes place in Oceania, one of three intercontinental super-states that divided the world among themselves after a global war
London, the "chief city of Airstrip One", the Oceanic province that "had once been called England or Britain
Party: Ingsoc
background Posters of the Party leader
adorn the landscape the ubiquitous telescreen
(transciving television set) monitors the private and public lives of the populace
Big Brother's face looms on giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's 1984 film adaptation
the social class system of Oceania the upper-class Inner Party,
the elite ruling minority the middle-class Outer Party the lower-class Proles (from
proletariat), who make up 85% of the population and represent the uneducated working class
ministries Ministry of Peace
(Minipax) supports Oceania's perpetual war.
Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty) rations and controls food, goods, and domestic production. Starvation.
Ministry of Love (Miniluv) identifies, monitors, arrests, and converts real and imagined dissidents (beaten and tortured, and sent to Room 101 to face "the worst thing in the world" — until love for Big Brother and the Party replaces dissension
Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) controls information: news, entertainment, education, and the arts. Lies.
ideology (The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism)
plot The story of Winston Smith presents the world
in the year 1984, after a global atomic war, via his perception of life in Airstrip One (England or Britain), a province of Oceania, one of the world's three superstates; his intellectual rebellion against the Party and illicit romance with Julia; and his consequent imprisonment, interrogation, torture, and re-education by the Thought Police (Thinkpol) in the Miniluv
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Winston Smith – the protagonist a member of the Outer Party
works as an editor revising historical records to concord the past to the contemporary party line orthodoxy — that changes daily — and deletes the official existence of unpersons, people who have been "vaporized"; who have not only been killed by the state, but effectively erased from existence
Julia
Winston's lover, is a covert "rebel from the waist downwards" who publicly espouses Party doctrine as a member of the fanatical Junior Anti-Sex League
O'Brien a member of the Inner
Party who poses as a member of The Brotherhood, the counter-revolutionary resistance, in order to deceive, trap, and capture Winston and Julia
Emmanuel Goldstein a former leader of The Party, the
counter-revolutionary author of The Book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism and leader of the Brotherhood
He is the symbolic Enemy of the State — the national nemesis who ideologically unites the people of Oceania with the Party, especially during the Two Minutes Hate, and other fear mongering by the Inner Party. It is unknown whether he is real or a fabrication of the Party itself for the purpose of propaganda
2+2=5 (doublethink) a system of thought that
allowed people to believe two contradictory things simultaneously (the chocolate ration is cut to 20 grams and the chocolate ration is raised to 20 grams)
Newspeak The Principles of Newspeak"
is an academic essay appended to the novel. It describes the development of Newspeak, the Party's minimalist artificial language meant to ideologically align thought and action with the principles of Ingsoc by making "all other modes of thought impossible
Characteristics of totalitarianism 1. dominant ideology 2. one-party system (mass) 3. unlimited power 4. control of mass-media 5. terror
(C.J. Friedrich)
Stalin – Soviet Union
Hitler, Germany
Ferenc Szálasi, Hungary
Mátyás Rákosi -Hungary
Mao Ce Tung - China
Pol Pot – Cambodia
19841984Influences, cultural
impact
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8