1984 CONTEXT

OTHER CONTEXT

• HITLERS MASS MEDIA PROPGHANDA TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION
• telecsreens and parades etc 
• 'vaporisation'-remiscient of stalin 
• big bro fusion of hitler and stalin
• by combining traits of both=clear he staunchly against form of gov tot
• big bro instantly recogniable-mustache hitler 

ROLE OF MEDIA

• spent time in spain-franco facist 
• although initally pleased with osiclaims etc quicky became aware of his dissulusionment and how such political climate could not maitain the idea political life

SETTING

• oceania-americas atlantic iseles autralia etc 
• mainland known as airstrip one formally eng
• alot of what wintson experinces=hyperboles of real life
• hunger, war hysteria, destriction of fam unit, 
• CREATIVE EXTENSION OF HOW MASSES TREATED UNDER STALIN FRANCO HITLER ETC 
• BY SETTING IN LONDON-ORWELL INVOKE SENSE OF REAL WAR TORN COMMUNITY
• WHERE PPL LIVE IN 'WOODEN DWELLINGS LIKE CHICKEN HOUSES'
• INTENT TO CAPITALISE ON MEMEORY THAT MOST BRIT READERS WOULD HAVE HAD 
• VERY REAL GEOGRAOHICAL SPOT-THAT HOLDS CONNECTIONS TO MODERN READERS 
• PARTY DIVIDED INNER PARTY RUILING 2%, OUTER EDUCATED WORKING 19% AND PROLES WORKING CLASS 
• although party doesnt see these dividsions as 'true classes'-clear orwells wants us to see this disticntion
• class distsinctions=conflict 

WW1

EUROPE AND SOCIET UNION PRIOR TO 1984

• published 1949 just after stalins 1930s great purges, 1936 spanish war, ww11 1939
• 1929-1953 stalin communist leader-state sezied all property 
• dictator 
• no ownership given…