FULL TITLE · 1984 AUTHOR · George Orwell TYPE OF WORK · Novel GENRE · Negative utopian, or dystopian, fiction • LANGUAGE · English • TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · England, 1949 • DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1949 • •
• TONE · Dark, frustrated, pessimistic • NARRATOR · Third-person, limited • CLIMAX · Winston’s torture with the cage of rats in Room 101 • PROTAGONIST · Winston Smith • ANTAGONIST · The Party; Big Brother • SETTING (TIME) · 1984 • SETTING (PLACE) · London, England (known as “Airstrip One” in the novel’s alternate reality) • POINT OF VIEW · Winston Smith’s • FALLING ACTION · Winston’s time in the café following his release from prison, including the memory of his meeting with Julia at the end of Book Three • TENSE · Past
• (I) the upper-class Inner Party — 2% • (II) the middle-class Outer Party— 13% • (III) the lower-class Proles — 85%. the Ministry of Peace deals with war and defence. the Ministry of Plenty deals with economic affairs (rationing and starvation). the Ministry of Love deals with law and order (torture and brainwashing). the Ministry of Truth deals with news, entertainment, education and art (propaganda).
• The society of Airstrip One lives in poverty: hunger, disease and filth • Ruined cities and towns are commonplace— the consequence of the civil war, the atomic wars, and rockets. • Social decay and wrecked buildings surround Winston; aside from the ministerial pyramids, little of London was rebuilt.
• «Рroles" live in poverty and are kept sedated with alcohol, pornography and a national lottery • There’s the tight control of the middle class • The standard of living is low overall • Urban decay in London vs technological development of spies
• towered vast and white above the grimy landscape • with a sort of vague distaste—this was London • rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard, their roofs with corrugated iron • bout twenty or thirty bombes a week were falling on London at present • London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London. • a vast amount of criminality in London
• London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under.
• Dirty dust of London in the pores of his skin. • ‘Rats!’ • Some parts of London are swarming with them • You could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London.
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