1984 context
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- Nineteen- Eighty-Four: Context
- Orwell's life
- Famously described himself as "lower-upper-middle class
- Attended Eton and hated the rules and regulations of it
- Worked as a British Imperial Officer in Burma, where he had to enforce strict rule of a despised political regime
- Lived with destitute Northern English coal miners and became a democratic socialist
- During Spanish Civil War, he became even more against fascism in all its forms
- Worked for BBC during WW2. Made propaganda for India.
- Soviet Russia
- "2+2=5" was a real Soviet political slogan
- Great Purges 1936-38- 600,000 died in an official governmental purge. Era of public repression, surveillance.
- Goldstein stands for Trotsky, was a traitor to the cause according to Stalin. His book "The Revolution Betrayed" is similar to Goldstein's book.
- Nazi Germany
- Soviet Russia
- "2+2=5" was a real Soviet political slogan
- Great Purges 1936-38- 600,000 died in an official governmental purge. Era of public repression, surveillance.
- Goldstein stands for Trotsky, was a traitor to the cause according to Stalin. His book "The Revolution Betrayed" is similar to Goldstein's book.
- Mass media was a key factor in Hitler's rise
- Nazis held frequent marches, like the Party's public propaganda, events and rallies
- Soviet Russia
- Post-War Britain
- Many believed World War Three was inevitable, making the wars feel both realistic and unavoidable
- US had dropped bombs on Japan only three years earlier.
- The food rationing and inconsistent electricity, blitz raids are all a reminder of post-war Britain.
- The idea of three superstates comes from the global "areas of influence" by
- The Evolution of the Dystopian Novel
- Grew as a response to the sixteenth century idea of utopia. These writers believed that utopia was impossible and if we did not do anything, corruption and greed would take over
- Zamyatin's We has a similar plot to 1984; a man lives in totalitarian state controlled by surveillance and meets a woman who pulls him away
- Know about Brave New World by Huxley. Took ideas about social conditioning.
- Orwell's life
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