1984

George Orwell’s classic tale of a future world

gone horribly wrong
 SUCCINCT
 1984 is a warning against the dangers of a
totalitarian society
 A dictatorship where every individual has
every movement monitored and analyzed
 Symbolic of the dangers of technology and
abuse of technology
 The world of 1984 is a negative utopia --- a
dystopia
 Terms to Know
 Oceania = N. and S. America, Britain,
Australia, S. Africa
 Eurasia = Russia, Western and Eastern Europe
 Eastasia = China
 Land up for grabs = Middle East and Northern
Africa
 Constant fighting for control of that land
Political Geography in the world of
Nineteen Eighty-Four
 Few more terms from 1984
 Doublethink – the ability  Thought crime – thinking
to believe two anti-party thoughts
contradictory things at the
same time
 Newspeak – the language
of Oceania
 Ingsoc – Oceania’s form
of government
 Telescreen = a two-way
television screen
1984: Oceania’s Ranks
 MAIN CHARACTERS

 Big Brother
 Brotherhood
 Winston Smith
 Julia
 Simon O’Brian
 The Ministries of Oceania
 The Ministry of Peace

 The Ministry of Plenty

 The Ministry of Truth

 The Ministry of Love

 Points of criticism
 Criticizes totalitarianism
 Totalitarianism: dictatorship and forming a
person according to a special ideology
 Totalitarianism in the text: introduction of a
new language, everyone has to speak it.
 Is against freedom of thought
 What’s this world like?
 All citizens are
monitored by
telescreens which are
present in their homes
and workplaces
 The government is
represented by Big
Brother, a figure who
“sees everything”
 EVALUATION

 Orwell’s Newspeak entered in English Lang.

 Vision of a drab totalitarian future
 Political Reality.
Questions..