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Gives vocab to psychology
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Allows writes in the modern time to go inside the character’s mind
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Solipsism
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You can only know truth in your mind
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There is no external truth
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This is often negative
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Marxism in 1984
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The common man (the proles) will overthrow the government
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Confusion/Alienation/Fragmentation
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Winston has these qualities within his life and society
Romanticism SchamaGothicism
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Imitative, grotesque form of Medievalism
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Themes
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The mysterious, the fantastic the psychologically terrifying
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The supernatural the mock religious, the transgressive
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Gothicism as a response to the dissolution of “order” (king and church)
Science fiction
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Speculative fiction rooted loosely in the laws of probability as understood through the naturalsciences
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Themes
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Moral implications of human knowledge/potential “truth through science
Romanticism
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The French revolution was occurring next door
The people could and would take back their rights
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Rousseau
Reshaped the mental habits of an entire generation
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