1984 Flashcards
(31 cards)
YEARN 4 COLLECTIVITY: any such…
creature as a capitalist or any such garment as a top hat
zoomorphic- alienation from upper class
caricatural- simplifies them to a collective
YEARN 4 COLLECTIVITY: her voice…
floated upwards with a sort of happy melancholy
oxymoron- mixed feelings, envious of prole freedom but not understanding them, can never be one of them
COLLECTIVITY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF: you did not have…
friends nowadays you had comrades
paradox- isolation of conformity under totalitarianism
“The feeling of nakedness…
with one’s hands behind one’s head and one’s face and body all exposed, was almost unbearable.”
The anaphora of the generic determiner ‘one’s’ magnifies the sensation of vulnerability felt by Winston stresses the demoralising, psychological impact of totalitarian power exerted on individuals
- How the party seeks to destroy the “self” through dehumanisation
WE YEARN/TAKEN ADVANTAGE hideous ecstasy…
“Seemed to flow through the whole group like an electric current”
This statement reveals the deep-rooted, primal aggression with which the two minutes hate infests the minds of the party members
Oxymoron reveals that the kind of ecstasy the party produces is artificial, unnatural and a perversion
WILD: Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious
anadiplosis- presents a paradox that by maintaining the masses ignorant, they will never know to rebel, hence party’s determination to destroy the individual
CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL “bright cold day…
in april”… “pools of golden light”
tripartite stucture/pathetic fallacy- discovery and rebellion revealed as an awakening
THE EFFECT “He disliked …
nearly all women, especially the young and pretty ones…”
disanalogous with audiences
COLLECTIVITY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF It was almost normal …
for people to be frightened of their own children
Party takes advantage desire for collective (like family) by removing loyalty from the family and taking it for themselves
COLLECTIVITY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF Big…
brother
Familial language: party’s further breaking down of the family unit in favour of themselves
COLLECTIVITY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF “undermines solidarity of the family…
calls it’s leader a name which is a direct appeal to the sentiment of family loyalty”
Metafiction- literal theory behind the party
THE EFFECT Swallowed it easily…
with the stupidity of an animal
THE EFFECT
Their embrace…
was a battle, the climax, a victory… It was a political act
Exerting even sexual agency and enjoying things is rebellion and refusal to conform
THE EFFECT
DOWN WITH…
B.B (repeat)
stream of consiousness, articulating his own thoughts was an act of rebellion and a catalyst in his awakening
CHAMPIONS INDIVIDUALITY
the long hoped for…
bullet was finally entering his brain…he loved big brother
symbolic death, the end is confronting to encourage us to prevent the novel from becoming a reality
THE EFFECT
it was a good hanging…
i think tying their feet together spoils it, i like to see them kicking
colloquial vernacular juxtaposing morbid subject matter
THE EFFECT: swallowed it…
he was insane…
with the stupidity of an animal
a screaming animal…do it to julia!
animalism reveals loss of intricacy
MESSIAH
my saviour…
she was uttering a prayer
MESSIAH
Big brother…
is watching you
conveying the omnipresence of BB like god and inspiring obedience out of fear
THE MESSIAH
sometimes it was fists…
truncheons…the worst thing in the world
reference to dantes inferno
MESSIAH
it is not good enough…
to obey BB, you must love him
religious rhetoric
DEVIL
the agents of goldstein…
have been at work
DEVIL
the earliest…
defiler… all subsequent crimes
same story, allegorical/symbolic
DEVIL
a compendium…
of all the heresies
religious jargon
