EN111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friendly Fire, Totalitarianism, Post-Structuralism
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Orwell"s biography: 1903-1950, born as eric blair in india, while india was still an english colony, wrote 9 books and 70 essays/articles. Socialist: belief that everyone should receive a fair share of production, against british imperialism. 1984 as a dystopian novel: dystopia, an imagined place where everything is unpleasant, where people lead dehumanized and fearful lives, opposite of utopia: perfect world, written after wwii, orwell feared those who, would deprive us of truth. "big brother" surveillance: thoughtcrime, room 101, would repress citizens of a society. Comparison between hunger games and 1984 (two dystopian novels) False presence of peace: peacekeepers + version of them in 1984, connected to the military, underlying rebellion, two distinct classes. 1984 written in 1948: a warning against totalitarianism, where a single party controls media, economy, restricts free speech, use of state terrorism to regulate citizens, against dictators, adolf hitler (germany) Joseph stalin (soviet union: great purge/terror, detained, deported, killed, tortured anyone that became an issue.
