Proles

When we consider the intertextual connections between texts through an exploration of the characters we come to realize the significance of a composers ‘purpose and text’ An individual’s perception of their value is based on the circumstances they are situated within. Different contexts lead to different values being explored. Supporting this statement Both Orwell and Lang’s works both successfully present the imminent dangers of the contemporary and social and political world to which they are…

in today’s world, in the world of 1984, it would be a great deal more difficult. In Oceania, things that are pleasurable are forbidden and are considered dangerous. Winston is luck y enough to stumble upon a glass paperweight in a small shop in the prole district. The paperweight is something that Winston finds extremely beautiful, but doesn’t serve an essential purpose. It’s beauty and uselessness comfort Winston. His indulgence in the object brings forth not only feelings of joy but also…

Progga Choudhuri FIQWS Professor Minnich Dystopian fiction emphasizes hegemony in a controlled environment. In 1984 by George Orwell and in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the ruling class dominates the masses through various mediums of control. Both books explores dystopia through authoritative control that is maintained by the socialization from a young age usings tools such as propaganda, education and history. The state plays a crucial role in the normalization of societal control.…

The timeless novel 1984 depicts Oceania, a place where Big Brother controls everything, and a place of no laws. Winston Smith lives in London, which is a part of the super state Oceania. Oceania is broken down into three levels of power, the proles, the inner party, and the outer party. Life there was pretty simple because “nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws” (Orwell, 6). A defining part of a utopia is the absence of laws. Oceania has no laws that are clearly written, but…

Year: 1984 Dear myself, When you read this you have probably been through a lot and you won’t even remember that you have written this letter. That is exactly the reason why I am writing this letter to you at this moment, to help you remember what your feelings were and what the actual truth is. Hopefully, you thoroughly believe what I’ am saying and become the same Winston again as you used to be… You have committed various crimes that have lead to your ‘vaporation’ as the Party calls it.…

he struggles to hold in his feelings of dislike towards The Party, but eventually he starts having hope and starts to rebel against The Party. He puts his hope in a group of people who aren't under the complete control of the state 1984, they are "proles", in Brave New World, they are people on the reservation and in We, they are people outside the walls of the One State. Usually when the dystopian protagonist sets a goal, he either wants to escape or wants to destruct the society's principles,…

Both Orwell’s 1984 and Zamyatin’sWeare dystopian novels expressing the fear of totalitarian governments and the lives of the citizens in these countries. Both of these novels express a similar theme. For example, both novels are set in an unpleasant totalitarian society in which the citizens are constantly being repressed and in both novels there exists an attempt to rebel against the government. Despite these similarities, a closer look at both novels reveals that they have less in common than…

They always say that 'love conquers all' or "love wins", but can a society live purely based on hate survive? In a novel, titled 1984 by George Orwell, he focuses on the dystopia that is Oceania. Oceania is a dystopia, that does not allow self-expression or self-thought. It prohibits love, unless it is the love of Big Brother. There is no art, music, laughter, and/or science. In Oceania, since there is no self-expression, the made a language that is called Newspeak to prevent the spread of…

suspicious eyes. And when every television street, and even every child is watching your every move, that is no easy task. Even then, the majority were small in scale, even most of them were reason enough to warrant his arrest. He would slip into the prole district even though “Party members were supposed not to go into ordinary shops” (6). The most consist rebellious action he took was in his own mind. After all, when you can nothing, at least you can try to think. Winston expressed it himself,…

Freedom is not a positive thing. The party had so many rules they had to follow. Don't allow divorces, enjoy sex. The Party needed to teach proles natural interiors (Stanley 236). Adolf Hitler likewise, George Orwell has a distant view, of peace is not the main goal. Peace was the base of the principles (Dwen). It creates a distant view on an anti-utopian. Therefore, in the novel, it states;…