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Title: 1984 Dialectical Journals and Responses part 1
Description: Analysis' of quotes in the book 1984 by George Orwell that display examples of tone, figurative language, setting, striking phrases/ideas, etc.
Description: Analysis' of quotes in the book 1984 by George Orwell that display examples of tone, figurative language, setting, striking phrases/ideas, etc.
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Bri Mobley
Ms
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1984
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1159
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Text
Response
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the
clocks were striking thirteen
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” (Orwell
1)
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The tone is optimistic
...
We
know by finding careful details that it is cold,
which can be translated to depressing, but in
this quote we are told that it is April, which
means spring, and spring is generally
associated with life and growing, all good
things
...
Orwell also uses the word “vile” to describe
the wind, as if to describe how things around
him are so bad, that the weather isn't even
innocent; the quote “in effort to escape the
wind” helps to defend this point by describing
how Winston feels like the wind is trying to
catch or trap him
...
The word “victory” could make a
person feel like a winner, and the word
“mansion” could make a person think of
success, so for the author to have used these
words means a deliberate attempt to imply
hope for improvement, or a chance at
happiness, a feeling perfectly captured in one
word
...
However the reader can still
get an idea from the author's diction and
details of how bad things are at the moment,
by noticing how even after Winston enters the
Victory Mansion, he did it in an manner that
was “not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of
gritty dust from entering along with him”
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“The Ministry of Love was the really
frightening one
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Winston had never been inside the
Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer
of it
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Even the streets leading
up to its outer barriers were roamed by
gorillafaced guards in black uniforms, armed
with jointed truncheons
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In this passage, the author, George Orwell,
has shown a great example of setting
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The author describes the Ministry
of Love in a way that almost makes the reader
fear for Winston, the protagonist
...
The way Orwell
tells the reader that entry is only granted for
those “on official business”, is cause enough
for belief that something confidential,
unethical, or extremely important happens
inside and that civilian knowledge of what is
happening would be harmful; but to whom it
is harmful to the reader is unaware
...
“The next moment a hideous, grinding
screech, as of some monstrous machine
running without oil, burst from the big
telescreen at the end of the room
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The Hate had
started
...
In this excerpt, George Orwell described a
daily event in the “1984” society called the
“Two Minute Hate” with striking imagery
...
With the
word used, such as “hideous screech”,
“grinding”, and “burst” Orwell is able to
make even the readers feel on edge
...
“It was a noise that set one's
teeth on edge and bristled hair at the back of
one's neck
...
I think this passage is
significant to the overall text because the Hate
and who it entails are very important to the
story itself, and by describing how awful the
hate is, the reader is able to understand how
bad the people included in the hate are made
out to be
...
He had a trick of
resettling his spectacles in his nose which was
curiously disarming in some indefinable
way, curiously civilized
...
” (Orwell 11)
...
While describing
O’Brien, Orwell uses words that would make
him appear as someone unfriendly,
frightening, and unapproachable, however,
when the author talks about his spectacles, the
man's appearance to the reader changes into a
more charming and lively persona
...
The author
uses O’Brien’s spectacles as a symbol for
being human; by saying that his repositioning
of his glasses was disarming, it becomes
apparent that that action was seen as an
imperfection, proving to Winston that just
because he is important does not mean he is
inhuman
...
For
example, it appeared from the
Times of the
seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his
speech of the previous day, had predicted that
the South Indian front would remain quiet but
that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be
launched in North Africa
...
In this passage, Orwell describes his
character, Winston’s, job, which is to correct
statements that either the Party or Big Brother
made that eventually proved to be false in one
way or another
...
This passage greatly
offensive in South India and left North Africa
alone
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” (Orwell 39)
...
In the passage, Orwell tells about how the
party is made to seem like it is never wrong,
and when it is, it makes the necessary changes
to make the people think that it was indeed
correct; and the people hear these new
versions of statements and take them as fact
with no questions asked, proving just how
brainwashed the Party had been able to make
the people
...
This quotation from the novel is an example
of a striking phrase
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“WAR IS
PEACE” is showing how the party keeps the
people thinking that Oceania is at war in order
to make “fake victories” that keep the people
thinking they are better off being ruled by Big
Brother
...
“IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH” is the Party's way of saying
that as long as they “keep the wool over the
eyes” of the people, the Party will remain
strong and in control
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The more men you've had, the more
I love you
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’ ‘I hate purity, I hate goodness
...
I
want everyone to be corrupt to the bones
...
This quote represents when Winston finally
understands what is actually happening to the
people by the Party and Big Brother
...
So by
him saying “The more men you've had, the
more I love you
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“Syme has vanished
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On the
next day nobody mentioned him” (Orwell
147)
...
This
excerpt tells about how Syme was finally
taken away, because of him being too smart
and intelligent of what he was doing
...
This is significant because Winston predicted
this and knew that it would one day happen;
the people conform and do exactly what the
party wants them to do and how they do it
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•By having a “shortage of water” and an abundance of “victory gin” the Party is allowed
to more easily make the people conformist
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B
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•why is there victory gin? It became clear when we realized that it was to make the
people more easily persuaded
...
•yes
...
trust the people to keep the secret of their duty for them?
E
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F
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He always expects the worst
Title: 1984 Dialectical Journals and Responses part 1
Description: Analysis' of quotes in the book 1984 by George Orwell that display examples of tone, figurative language, setting, striking phrases/ideas, etc.
Description: Analysis' of quotes in the book 1984 by George Orwell that display examples of tone, figurative language, setting, striking phrases/ideas, etc.