1984 AO5

1984 = a warning for the human race which highlights the importance of resisting mass control and oppression

Conheeney

1984 = what might be the next step beyond the barbarity of such master of inhumanity as Hitler and Stalin

Thorp

destruction of Wulia = evidence of the scope of oppression

Crouch

'Old Misery Smith'

'his [Goldstein's] speeches were always full of obvious lies and meaningless jargon like 'free speech' and 'human rights'

'artsem' [artificial insemination]- 'how unmarried girls covered up for sexcrime when they got pregnant'

Julia, Sandra Newman

meta theatrical - from the perspective of readers of the novel

emphasis on Winston’s diary writing

multi-roling - everyman esque

play by Robert Icke Macmillan (2013)

Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) writ./dir. Radford

Eurythmics soundtrack

inc. propaganda films

sex connected to power

audio design - diary, telescreen, bombs

‘Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism’

[I try] to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole

Why I Write, George Orwell

‘during the cold war, 1984 seemed to have the edge’

Atwood’s comparison of 1984 and BNW as predictions of the future (2007)

‘what can’t be deemed Orwellian’
Orwell = ‘forever current’
‘the ultimate power is to define truth’

Purdy for NYT

1984 became a shorthand for not just a grim future but also an uncertain present

Lynskey

Orwell = fills a hole for anyone who wants to establish any kind of intellectual pedigree

Rodden

Big Brother does not actually get the last word

appendix ‘changes our whole understanding of the novel’

Frost