1984 CRITICAL THEORIES
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- Created on: 26-04-21 14:54
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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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