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Nineteen Eighty-Four w/Context, Themes & More

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Grade: HSC
Subject: English Advanced
Resource type: Notes
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Year uploaded: 2021
Page length: 4
 

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Title Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author George Orwell (English)
Published 1949
Context Precise satiric variations on history of Soviet Russia

Russia, Italy and Germany were totalitarian

Horror of ideology and totalitarian communism

Cold War period

Reflection of Europe AFTER World War II

*Orwell is representing Cold War fears of his society

  • Economic decline (ie rationing)
  • Rebuilding London (Blitz)/urban decay
  • Fear and opposition to totalitarian communism
  • Propaganda used to manipulate during war period
  • Introduction of modern technologies
  • Every-changing allegiances/enemies
  • State of perpetual war (ever-present fear, paranoia, uncertainty)

Reflection of Europe after WWII : 

  • Hunger
  • Forced labour
  • Mass executions
  • Orwell is critiquing elements of his society 
    • Ideology 
    • Propaganda
    • Technology
    • Changing allegiances

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