1984 Scaffold

Intro Context + Content

Thesis: xxx

   

Content: Divided into the tripartite structure and manipulating the satirical form. Through tracking the development of the protagonist Winston and his experience in the bleak setting of Airstrip one, Orwell tracks him, while giving insight into the anomalous individual compared to their indoctrinated communal human experience.

Context: Divided into a tripartite structure, manipulating satire and dystopic genre, 1984, influences centres around a post World War 2 era Europe with rise of fascist regimes.

 

Authorial Purpose: Alignning with xxx to demonstrate the xxx

 

 

Restate including content: through this,

Orwell writes 1984, not just to entertain but to warn…

Authorial Purpose

To provide a warning we should act now

Para 1 Context

• Part 1 of tripartite builds the setting of Airstrip One

• Critiques the political hegemony between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt’s, reflected in world of 3 superstates, including Oceania

• Parallels to post WW2 cities including Berlin and Warsaw, transform setting of London where many were familiar with air-raid alarms and tube station bunkers

• Depict an oppression where collective is valued, individual is not

Quote 1.1

“Victory Mansions … smelt of boiled cabbage and old rags”

• Olfactory imagery

• Provides a harrowing prophecy of what is to come for a familiar london

Quote 1.2

“No way of knowing if they are being watched at any moment”

• Put citizens as prisoners in Bentham’s panopticon

• Hypothetical prison, one guard but can see all

• Metaphorically omnipresecnt description of party control, who are able to project power from singular ‘Big Brother”

• Orwell purpose of the danger of single governments in exercising such big power

Quote 1.3

• Satirisation of Hitler youth through the Parsons children

  “Why can’t we go see the hanging”

• Exploits children innocence to maintain power

• Violence has become normalised

• Orwell again warns this is what the world is approaching

• Freedom is important, in “Shooting of an Elaphant”, wrote about the importance of it

Quote 1.4

Subversion of symbol of diary as one of privacy, describing Winston writing:
“To mark the paper was a decisive act”

• Risk of self-expression and reflection

• Cathartic way to unpack “the few cubic centermetres inside your skull”

• Bernard Crick, described it “Orwell’s warning of History being falsified, if we don’t record it”

Quote 1.5

“In his waking thoughts he called it the golden country”

• Dreaming of the Golden Country

• Reference to idealic English countryside

• Visual imagery

• Diametrically (complete opposite), opposes the present world, freedom is only dreams in totalitarian world

• Normen Bissel states that it represented Orwells dreams of what life would like like, even when dying in a london Hospital

Quote 1.6

“It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words”

• Symes worker in ministry of Truth, targeted to Proleatraians

• Reflect practice of historical revisionism of Stalins purges, the parties strong grasp on history

• Orwells concern of the dumbing down of media and culture.

Quote 1.7

Subversion of nursery rhyme
“Here comes a helicopeter to chop off your head”

• “Visual imagery”

• “Builds concern on technology, only invented mere decades ago

Para 2 Context + Thesis

• Bleak and corrupted representation of Oceania, taking inspiration from individuals who rebelled in Hitlers regime, didactically critiqueing restrictions placed on individuals while also exemplifying the power that regimes have, where meaningful human connections aren’t allowed, he examines the potential for rebeliion.

Quote 2.1

• The anaphora, Orwell describes the relationship as:
  “It was a blow struck against the party”

• Winston and Julias relationship are an attack on the parties sovereignty

• In a world where love as a natural desire is outlawed, rebellion is only natural

Quote 2.2

“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own”

• Symbolism of the paperweight and coral

• Builds the fragile and transient nature of Winston and Julias’s relationship

• Their relationship is beautiful, in a world where there is none, yet fragile like the paperweight, being destroyed by the party at any moment.

Quote 2.3

“We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness”

• Said by OBrien in a dream, provide a false sense of hope

• Ominous foreshadowing, Winston ends up in Room 101

• Paradoxically an overly bright room in ministry of love, infamous with torture of anyone

Quote 2.4

“You are prepared to commit murder … yes”

• Prompted by Obrien when joining the Brotherhood

• Winstons need for rebellion by joining the brotherhood

• Concerning statement, marks a loss in rational thought resulting from the regime

Quote 2.5

Extract from Goldsteins Book “since the end of neolithic ages, there have been 3 kinds of people in the world, The High, The Middle and The Low

• Goldstein, based on Soviet Russia’s Leon Trotsky,

• Document setting out beliefs of the party

• Criticism of social heirachies, influenced by time in Burma, and political alighnment as a democractic socialist.

Quote 2.6

“Someone had picked up the glass paperweight, and smashed it to pieces”

• Occur when thought police come and arrest Winston and Julia

• Destruction of paperweight motif

• Parties destruction of human relations, exhaustion of freedom

Para 3 Context:

• Denounment of tripartite structure
  Orwells final part emulates Hitlers 1930s fascist regime including the Gestapo

• Emulates Stalins gulag

• Warns of power of governments

Quote 3.1a

‘Ministry of Love”

• Fulfilling promise of ‘place of no darkness

• Paradoxically builds individual love for the party

• Builds inspiration from soviet gulage

Quote 3.1b

“Place of no darkness”

• He saw now why O’brien had seemed to recognise the allusion

• Orwell establishes success of the party and manipulating tactics

Quote 3.1c

“Skull like faces”

• Visual imagery of torture in ministry of love

• Reflecting of signing of UDHR, mere 6 months before, basic human dignity is important

Quote 3.2

• Said by Obrien during Winstons torture in Ministry of love

  “You are the last man”

• Allusion to the biblical last man

• The god like power of the regime

Quote 3.3

Winston description of O’Brien
“He was the inquisitor, he was the friend”

• Winstons refusal to overcome the reality of O’brien’s insincerity

• Obrien yet has provided Winston with hope

Quote 3.4

“Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever”

• Anomolous individual oppressed by the state of unrelentless torture by the state on the individual

• Allusion to Jack Londons 1908 novel, the Iron Heel, where powerful oligarchy suppresses all opposition

Quote 3.5

Winston exclaims when rats are brought out in room 101
“Do it to Julia, tear her to bones!”

• Reflects Stalins construction of a society of denunciation, creating total conformity and riding opposition even against outselfs

• Questions whether we can even trust ourselves

Quote 3.6

Closing lines with third person narration, Winston in the chesnut cafe
“He won the victory over himself, he loved Big Brother”

• Delivers the sobering verdict, that the individual is helpless against the collective