Emine+class+notes-26.01.10

George Orwell: uses clear language, background; he has encountered different war scenes, observed the Spanish war, lived as a homeless in Paris. 1984-wrote it in 1944 as the future While reading: what ways is rhetorical? What ways is simply a story? How is it different from other novels of the same genre? İe Brave New World? How is love conveyed? First Sentence: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Winston Smith: heroic but plain name, cowardly in some ways, ordinary “vile wind”- repetition of vile, dark depressing air, not nesecarily foreboding, nothing is beautiful in life setting: repressive atmosphere, nobody is joyous “boiled cabage” institutional smell, no brightness or color “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”- the fact that they are constantly being watched- prison like atmosphere- you cannot evade big brother “a dulled mirror” – narrator becomes more important at times, repressive tone, hopeless description, emotionally cold- sky “harsh blue” “varicose ulcer” physical aillements related with repression “no color in anything” except the posters – Big Brother is a god-like figure “Thought” capitals god-like language controls the way we think, physical and emotional torment- if you control language you control feeling “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” Irony, paradoxical, no one questions this- double irony “Winston had never been near the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it” – he is not in love when he falls in love with julia he will go there perhaps- foreboding “dark colored bread””colorless liquid”- food is a motif –like the society it is colorless, dark and dull “victory cigarettes” –irony none of the things that are “victory” has joy in it contrast- book and envirnoment Winston tries to find freedom in a place where freedom does not exist first act of rebellion- Winstons diary, glimmer of hope,Winstons voice is blending in (tone: fear, foreboding) most people dont have a sense of date and time, emotionally like children, emotional and physical tormenting pain “he disliked nearly all women” how women are portrayed in a non-female way women and children are opposite of stereotypes