1984 by lena

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1984 & the post-war world

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Background to Orwell's 1984

Transcript of 1984 by lena

  • 1. 1984&the post-war world

2. Overview

  • The Movie 1984
  • George Orwell
  • Stalinist policy
  • Brief introduction to the history

3. The Movie1984

  • Dystopian film of the novel about an oligarchical and totalitarianist society
  • Social class system:-> upper-class/Inner Party ->middle-class/Outer Party ->lower-class/Proles
  • Oceania
  • Eurasia
  • Eastasia

4. The Movie 1984

  • Four government-ministries: ->Ministry of Peace ->Ministry of Plenty ->Ministry of Love ->Ministry of Truth

5. World map based upon 1984 6. George Orwell

  • Socialist
  • Supported a federal socialist Europe
  • Dislike of imperialism

7. Every line of serious work I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. 8. Stalinist Policy

  • Universally recognized as a
  • policy of manipulation
  • Based upon an enormous
  • contempt for the working mass, which is seen as political cannon-fodder
  • Media and science was state-owned or controlled
  • Propaganda used Marxist philosphy to attack capitalism

9. Little Introductioninto the History

  • Troubles and Tensions between the Super Powers
  • Cold War
  • NATO (1949)

10. 11. Super-Powers 12. 13. Thank you for listening! Lena