1984 CRITICAL THEORIES

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FREUD DREAMS AND PHOBIAS

  • 3 parts mind-id, ego, superego
  • id-natural instincts, unconscious ,ego-determined choices each day-compromise between id instincts and guilt may cause, suoergeo-ptratially conscious and controls guilt and cosity etc 
  • FREDU=DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN ID AND SUPEREGO=UNHAPPINESS 
  • orwell created society where there are disagreements between the two 
  • PARTY CREATES TRONG SUPEREGO IN ITS MEMEBERS-CHILDREN TO OBTAIN FRIOM SEX AND JOIN ANTI SEX LEAGUE WHILST ID DOES NOT WANT THIS
  • 'advcate complete celibacy for both sexes
  • enourages children to repsress id 
  • enourages children to repress id by rewarding them for turning in parents etc 
  • if socmeone decides to break partys morals=may have no guilt to stop=party inrdcued another level to control ego-tekescreens 
  • keep eye on eveyone 
  • however cant repress proles desires compeletly=turns these deisres etc to their adntage-two mind hate 
  • pic of big bri shown=ppl subsonsciously connect to party and big bro to feelings of safety and love
  • ppl consider turning on party less
  • Winstons character represnts id wher it is driving fotce and ego and siperego comparitively less well developed 
  • id takes over when writes in journval 
  • unconscious ;'fown with big bro'
  • his suppressed id firved him to act upon his desires without filtering them throggh ego and suoereho 
  • but when relaies what done suoerego kicks in and overwhelmed with idea may be cauight 

LANGUAGE AS THE ULTIMATE WEAPON

  • ORWELL INTERESTED IN MODERN USE OF LANG/ABUSE AND MUSUSE OF IT 
  • lang has power to mask truth and mislead public 
  • he wants to increase public awareness of its power 
  • puts great focus on newspeak and media in novel
  • how lang can be used to policticallt deciev and manipukate ppl-society where ppl unquestionally obey gov and accpt all propaghanda as rwlaity 
  • -newspeak faciliattes deception and maniplation and restricts undertanding iof real world 
  • enbcloses ppl in ORTHODOX PSYCHO REALITY 
  • 'cutting lang down to the bone'
  • LINGUITS BEJAMIN LEE WHORD BELIBVED IN LIN BETWEEN THOUGHT AND LANG
  • 'DIFFERENT LANG IMPOSES DIFF CONCEOTIONS OF REALITUY'
  • MYERS 'TO EXPAND LANG IS TO EXPAND ABILITY TO THINK'
  • conversly newspeak 'reduced complexity'
  • when obirne get winston to embatrce ingsco-imagnation decays and can n longer ;fix his mind on any one subject at a time;
  • media and telecreens also control-burst of news and proaghanda  ppl cheer at 'good news'
  • slaves of the medu
  • ORWELL IN HIS ESSAY POLITICS AND THE ENG LANG-lanf designed to make lies sound triuthful
  • ege media efers t minsirty of truth etc-conerns with falsification of records etc 
  • ministry of plenty makes us convinved public economy in good dhape but acually shortage in comodities 
  • miistry of love 'really frightening one'
  • ALTHOUGH NOVEL EXTREM AND NOT NECCESSARILY PREDICTION OF FUTURE 
  • PATRICK WRIGHT 'THIS ISSUE VERY MUCH ALIVE IN 20TH CENT'

LANGUAGE AND STYLE 

  • plain with few unfamilair words=doesnt confuse our undertanidng 
  • anynew rods introcuded exmaplined immdeiatley like double think 
  • for moments when winstons emotions intense-metahors made more powerful-but used sparingly 'paperweight room he in'
  • formal tone and short statement 
  • orwell vaires texture of bppk nuy bringing in other lang features to evoke contexr in which winstions thoughts are…

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