Loss of Identity- 1984

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Loss of Identity- 1984

• Riana and Sam

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Orwells cry for freedom

• Wrote 1984 as his own personal message to society
  for freedom of expression
• In writing 1984, showed how people would react
  under a totalitarian government

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Psychological Manipulation

• Party manipulates everyone into being the same
  person
• Only aware of certain facts
• Everyone is like their robot

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The influence of the Party

• Destroys all sense of identity
• Everyone wears the same clothes, eats the same
  food, lives in the same apartments

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Winstons Torture

• Brainwashed into another clone
• Keeps him from showing his true identity
• Any individual thought is borderline crime

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Feelings

• To dissemble your feelings, to control your
  face, to do what everyone else was doing was an
  instinctive reaction Book 1 pg. 16 (iBook)
• During  2 minutes Hate
• Everyone was afraid to show any signs of personal
  thoughts
• Never showed their true identity

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Past and Future

• Who controls the past, ran the Party slogan,
  controls the future who controls the present
  controls the past Book 1 pg. 28 (iBook)
• The Party slogan
• Control all aspects of life ? easily change facts
  from any point in time as if they never existed
• When a person dies, its as if they never existed
• No identity

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Relationships

• You could not have friends nowadays, you had
  comrades Book 1 pg. 36
• Party does not promote any sort of relationship
• One can learn more about themselves by building a
  relationship with someone else
• Can develop identity

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Newspeak

• Youd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its
  vagueness, its useless shads of meaning Book 1
  pg. 39 (iBook)
• Syme speaking to Winston
• Newspeak less words to memorize, all
  repeated/attached to suffixes and prefixes
• Party is trying to eradicate individual thought
  by not giving people many words to use

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Freedom

• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two
  makes four Book 2 pg. 57 (iBook)
• Winston writing in his diary
• Simple math can be overruled by the Party
• Believes that once we can believe this fact, we
  are free

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Minority

• There was truth and there was untruth, and if
  you clung to the truth even against the whole
  world, you were not mad. Book 2 pg. 149 (iBook)
• Winston thought, just because a person is
  different, and thinks differently to apparently
  everyone else they are not necessarily wrong.
• Thinking IS Identity.
• Led to his downfall

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Ultimate Goal

• Control of the people leads to control of their
  identity which leads to a mass of people unable
  to be their own person
• They becomes clones of The Party
• No individual thought, loss of themselves