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Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, acts as the primary setting. It is located in
what "had been called England or Britain", and is the home of the main
characters of the book, including its protagonist, Winston Smith.
Even the names of countries, and their shapes on the map, had been different.
Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been
called England, or Britain, though London, he felt, had always been called
London.
                   Big Brother




Speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener,[1] who among other things was
prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I. As a child Orwell
(under his real name Eric Blair) published poems praising Kitchener and war
recruitment in his local newspaper. Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner
of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed
life undertotalitarianism.[2]
In the novel it is not clear whether Big Brother is (or was) a real person or a fiction invented
by the Party to personify it. In Party propaganda Big Brother is presented as a real person:
one of the founders of the Party, along with Goldstein
• Ingsoc (Newspeak for "English Socialism") is the political ideology of
  the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian science
  fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [WikiPedia]

•    With doublethink, the people believe what they otherwise know is false; in believing
    the revised (new) past, the new past is what was, hence "he who controls the past
    controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past". The Ministry of
    Love (MiniLuv), via brainwashing and torture, and the Ministry of Truth (MiniTrue), with
    propaganda, ensure that perpetual infallibility of the Party is instilled in the mind of each
    Oceanian. The person exists only as part of the collective, hence, for the
    collective, nothing exists beyond the goodness of the Party and the evil of other nations
    and the Party's power.
Wikipedia


In the year 1984, Ingsoc divides Oceanian society into three social classes, the Inner
Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles:

• The Inner Party make policy, affect decisions, and govern; they are known as “The
  Party”. One of their upper-class privileges is (temporarily) shutting off their
  telescreens, for time alone. They live in spacious, comfortable homes, have good
  food and drink, personal servants, and speedy transportation. No Outer Party
  member or Prole may enter an Inner party neighbourhood without a good
  pretext.
• The Outer Party work the state’s administrative jobs; they are the middle class, whose
  “members are allowed no vices other than cigarettes and Victory Gin”, and who are
  the citizens most spied upon, via telescreens and surveillance. This is
  because, according to history, the middle class is the most dangerous; they are the
  ones to incite revolution, the one thing The Party does not want. They live in
  rundown neighbourhoods, use crowded subways as transportation, have poorer food
  and drink, and are denied sex for any other purpose than having children within
  marriage, and are expected to look at it as a duty, rather than pleasure.

• The Proles are the lower class of workers. They live in the poorest conditions, but
  they can be considered as more fortunate than the Outer Party members since they
  are not constantly watched by Big Brother, and the Party keeps them happy and
  sedates them with alcohol, gambling, sport, sexual
  promiscuity, and prolefeed (Fabricated books, pornography). A few agents of the
  Thought Police do mark down and eliminate any individuals deemed capable of
  becoming dangerous and spread false rumours. Proletariat are 85 percent
  of Oceania’s populace. Wikipedia
Double Think

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and
accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to
forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary
again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence
of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all
this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to
exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with
reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on
indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.

In the case of workers at the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, doublethink
means being able to falsify public records, and then believe in the new history that they
themselves have just rewritten. As revealed in Goldstein's Book, the Ministry's name is
itself an example of doublethink: the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies. The
other ministries of Airstrip One are similarly named: the Ministry of Peace is concerned
with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is
concerned with starvation. The three slogans of the Party - War is Peace, Freedom is
Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength - are also examples. Wikipedia
• Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In
  the novel, it refers to the deliberately impoverished language promoted by the state.
  Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic
  principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but
  has a greatly reduced and simplifiedvocabulary and grammar. This suits
  the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking—
  "thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible by
  removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of
  freedom, rebellion and so on. One character, Syme, says admiringly of the shrinking
  volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.“

• The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from
  language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and
  sadness, goodthink and crimethink) which reinforce the total dominance of the
  State. Similarly, Newspeak root words served as both nouns and verbs, which
  allowed further reduction in the total number of words; for example, "think" served
  as both noun and verb, so the word thought was not required and could be
  abolished. A staccato rhythm of short syllables was also a goal, further reducing the
  need for deep thinking about language. (See duckspeak.) Successful Newspeak
  meant that there would be fewer and fewer words – dictionaries would get thinner
  and thinner.
The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four whose job it is to uncover and punish thoughtcrime. The Thought Police
use psychology surveillance to find and eliminate members of society who are capable
of the mere thought of challenging ruling authority.[2]
The Thought Police of Orwell and their pursuit of thoughtcrime were based on the
methods used by the totalitarian states and competing ideologies of the 20th century.
It also had much to do with, as Orwell called it, the "power of facing unpleasant
facts", and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into conflict
with others and their "smelly little orthodoxies".
The term "Thought Police", by extension, has come to refer to real or perceived
enforcement of ideological correctness.


Technology played a significant part in the detection of thoughtcrime in Nineteen
Eighty-Four—with the ubiquitous telescreens which could inform the
government, misinform and monitor the population. The citizens of Oceania are
watched by the Thought Police through the telescreens. Every movement, reflex, facial
expression, and reaction is measured by this system, monitored by the Ministry of
Love.
Senate
                                                        House, London, where
                                                        Orwell worked at the
                                                        Ministry of
                                                        Information, was his model
                                                        for the Ministry of Truth
The Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that
govern Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. As with the other
Ministries in the novel, the Ministry of Truth is a misnomer and in reality serves an
opposing purpose to that which its name would imply, being responsible for the
falsification of historical events; and yet is aptly named in a deeper sense, in that it
creates/manufactures "truth" in the newspeak sense of the word.
• The Ministry of Love, like the other ministries, is ironically named, since it is
  largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering, and
  torture. In a sense, however, the term is accurate, since its ultimate purpose is to
  instill love of Big Brother in the minds of thoughtcriminals. This is typical of the
  language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an
  idea and its opposite; the orthodox party member is nonetheless able to resolve
  these contradictions through the disciplined use of Doublethink.
O'Brien

The protagonist, Winston Smith, secretly hates the Party and Big Brother; in the event, he
approaches O’Brien, a high-level member of the Inner Party, believing him part of the
Brotherhood, Goldstein's conspiracy against Oceania, Big Brother, and the Party. Initially, he
appears as such, especially in giving Winston a copy of Goldstein’s illegal book, which
O’Brien says reveals the true, totalitarian nature of the society the Party established in
Oceania; full membership to the Brotherhood requires reading and knowing The Theory and
Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the true title of "the book". When alone in the room
above Mr. Charrington's shop, Winston examines the book, before reading it, noting that it
was:
      A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. The
     print also looked slightly irregular. The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart
     easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The inscription on the
     title-page ran:[1]THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
            by Emmanuel Goldstein

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1984 by Wikipedia

  • 1. This PowerPoint explains some key terms from 1984 using extracts and images published in Wikipedia
  • 3. Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, acts as the primary setting. It is located in what "had been called England or Britain", and is the home of the main characters of the book, including its protagonist, Winston Smith. Even the names of countries, and their shapes on the map, had been different. Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt, had always been called London. Big Brother Speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener,[1] who among other things was prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I. As a child Orwell (under his real name Eric Blair) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper. Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life undertotalitarianism.[2]
  • 4. In the novel it is not clear whether Big Brother is (or was) a real person or a fiction invented by the Party to personify it. In Party propaganda Big Brother is presented as a real person: one of the founders of the Party, along with Goldstein
  • 5. • Ingsoc (Newspeak for "English Socialism") is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian science fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [WikiPedia] • With doublethink, the people believe what they otherwise know is false; in believing the revised (new) past, the new past is what was, hence "he who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past". The Ministry of Love (MiniLuv), via brainwashing and torture, and the Ministry of Truth (MiniTrue), with propaganda, ensure that perpetual infallibility of the Party is instilled in the mind of each Oceanian. The person exists only as part of the collective, hence, for the collective, nothing exists beyond the goodness of the Party and the evil of other nations and the Party's power.
  • 6. Wikipedia In the year 1984, Ingsoc divides Oceanian society into three social classes, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles: • The Inner Party make policy, affect decisions, and govern; they are known as “The Party”. One of their upper-class privileges is (temporarily) shutting off their telescreens, for time alone. They live in spacious, comfortable homes, have good food and drink, personal servants, and speedy transportation. No Outer Party member or Prole may enter an Inner party neighbourhood without a good pretext.
  • 7. • The Outer Party work the state’s administrative jobs; they are the middle class, whose “members are allowed no vices other than cigarettes and Victory Gin”, and who are the citizens most spied upon, via telescreens and surveillance. This is because, according to history, the middle class is the most dangerous; they are the ones to incite revolution, the one thing The Party does not want. They live in rundown neighbourhoods, use crowded subways as transportation, have poorer food and drink, and are denied sex for any other purpose than having children within marriage, and are expected to look at it as a duty, rather than pleasure. • The Proles are the lower class of workers. They live in the poorest conditions, but they can be considered as more fortunate than the Outer Party members since they are not constantly watched by Big Brother, and the Party keeps them happy and sedates them with alcohol, gambling, sport, sexual promiscuity, and prolefeed (Fabricated books, pornography). A few agents of the Thought Police do mark down and eliminate any individuals deemed capable of becoming dangerous and spread false rumours. Proletariat are 85 percent of Oceania’s populace. Wikipedia
  • 8. Double Think The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. In the case of workers at the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, doublethink means being able to falsify public records, and then believe in the new history that they themselves have just rewritten. As revealed in Goldstein's Book, the Ministry's name is itself an example of doublethink: the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies. The other ministries of Airstrip One are similarly named: the Ministry of Peace is concerned with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is concerned with starvation. The three slogans of the Party - War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength - are also examples. Wikipedia
  • 9. • Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it refers to the deliberately impoverished language promoted by the state. Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplifiedvocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking— "thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character, Syme, says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.“ • The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink) which reinforce the total dominance of the State. Similarly, Newspeak root words served as both nouns and verbs, which allowed further reduction in the total number of words; for example, "think" served as both noun and verb, so the word thought was not required and could be abolished. A staccato rhythm of short syllables was also a goal, further reducing the need for deep thinking about language. (See duckspeak.) Successful Newspeak meant that there would be fewer and fewer words – dictionaries would get thinner and thinner.
  • 10. The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four whose job it is to uncover and punish thoughtcrime. The Thought Police use psychology surveillance to find and eliminate members of society who are capable of the mere thought of challenging ruling authority.[2] The Thought Police of Orwell and their pursuit of thoughtcrime were based on the methods used by the totalitarian states and competing ideologies of the 20th century. It also had much to do with, as Orwell called it, the "power of facing unpleasant facts", and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into conflict with others and their "smelly little orthodoxies". The term "Thought Police", by extension, has come to refer to real or perceived enforcement of ideological correctness. Technology played a significant part in the detection of thoughtcrime in Nineteen Eighty-Four—with the ubiquitous telescreens which could inform the government, misinform and monitor the population. The citizens of Oceania are watched by the Thought Police through the telescreens. Every movement, reflex, facial expression, and reaction is measured by this system, monitored by the Ministry of Love.
  • 11. Senate House, London, where Orwell worked at the Ministry of Information, was his model for the Ministry of Truth The Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. As with the other Ministries in the novel, the Ministry of Truth is a misnomer and in reality serves an opposing purpose to that which its name would imply, being responsible for the falsification of historical events; and yet is aptly named in a deeper sense, in that it creates/manufactures "truth" in the newspeak sense of the word.
  • 12. • The Ministry of Love, like the other ministries, is ironically named, since it is largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering, and torture. In a sense, however, the term is accurate, since its ultimate purpose is to instill love of Big Brother in the minds of thoughtcriminals. This is typical of the language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an idea and its opposite; the orthodox party member is nonetheless able to resolve these contradictions through the disciplined use of Doublethink.
  • 13. O'Brien The protagonist, Winston Smith, secretly hates the Party and Big Brother; in the event, he approaches O’Brien, a high-level member of the Inner Party, believing him part of the Brotherhood, Goldstein's conspiracy against Oceania, Big Brother, and the Party. Initially, he appears as such, especially in giving Winston a copy of Goldstein’s illegal book, which O’Brien says reveals the true, totalitarian nature of the society the Party established in Oceania; full membership to the Brotherhood requires reading and knowing The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the true title of "the book". When alone in the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, Winston examines the book, before reading it, noting that it was: A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. The print also looked slightly irregular. The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The inscription on the title-page ran:[1]THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein