1. MY WORK RESOURCES
1.1. Literature dictionary
1.2. Signature - Encyclopedia Britannica - Cliffnotes
1.3. Paperback encyclopedia
2. MEANING
2.1. Author’s style
2.1.1. Narrative technique : internal focalization to Winston
2.1.1.1. "He and Julia - speculations - out of his mind"
2.1.2. tone: blunt - witty - precise
2.1.2.1. "past> alterable - past>never had been altered"
2.1.3. language : intellectual yet clear
2.1.3.1. "cockney> disapeared"
2.2. Warning on totalitarism - love of power and domination - human subordination - personal extinction - potential dangers of totalitarianism
3. THE BOOK AS AN OBJECT
3.1. BIG BROTHER - Winston’s building - peculiar
3.2. left pivoted picture - mild aged man - continues in book’s spine - rotated leftwards - right position - staircase and door
3.3. Published in 1949
4. THE AUTHOR
4.1. Pen name: George Orwell
4.2. Eric Arthur Blair - England: 1907 - Burma - Spain - World War Two - sporadically writing - Tribune, Observer, Manchester Evening News
4.2.1. 1903, India – January 1950, England
4.2.2. importance in literature history
4.2.2.1. 2 classics - bywords - political abuses
4.2.3. best reminded for
4.2.3.1. widely read works - thorny >simple - trivialities>status of art.
4.2.4. predilection topics
4.2.4.1. experiences on war - poverty - political related allegories
4.3. Animal Farm (1945), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
5. THE CONTENTS
5.1. literary genre
5.1.1. Dystopian science fiction
5.2. Plot
5.2.1. exposition
5.2.1.1. imaginary future - 3 totalitarian police states - Englishman Winston Smith - government, distorting - rewriting history
5.2.2. rising action
5.2.2.1. longing for truth - secretly rebel - love affair
5.2.3. climax
5.2.3.1. Visit O’Brien > Revolution - arrested by the Thought Police
5.2.4. falling action
5.2.4.1. torture - break physically - submit - love Big Brother
5.2.5. resolution
5.2.5.1. betrays Julia - brainwash - benevolent love for Big Brother
5.3. Characters
5.3.1. Main characters
5.3.1.1. Winston Smith
5.3.1.1.1. 39 years old - itchy swollen ulcer on his leg - frail and thin - blue overalls
5.3.1.1.2. writing talent - drinks and smokes - lonely - observant – resentful - pessimistic
5.3.1.2. Julia
5.3.1.2.1. dark-haired - 36 years old - Anti-Sex sash
5.3.1.2.2. duplicitous - small rebellion - zealous Party member - sexual being - community service
5.3.1.3. O’Brien
5.3.1.3.1. black overalls - 40 years old - distinguished manners
5.3.1.3.2. powerful and cunning – Brotherhood - set Winston up- betrayal - torture
5.3.1.4. Big Brother
5.3.1.4.1. 45 years old – handsome – mustache
5.3.1.4.2. May not exist- ruler of Oceania – unavoidable - everywhere
5.3.2. Secondary characters
5.3.2.1. Emmanuel Goldstein
5.3.2.1.1. Sheep like – cunning stare – jewish like – big nose
5.3.2.1.2. Never appears - legendary leader of the Brotherhood - dangerous and treacherous
5.3.2.2. Parsons
5.3.2.2.1. fat - 35 years old - boy-like attitudes - illiterate
5.3.2.2.2. obnoxious - dull - Party member
5.3.2.3. Syme
5.3.2.3.1. Intelligent – outgoing - language - too intelligent
5.3.2.3.2. small - rat-like