i have to do a project about the theme of 1984 and i need some ideas on the theme. can someone help me on what the theme is please.
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i have to do a project about the theme of 1984 and i need some ideas on the theme. can someone help me on what the theme is please.
Man vs. Onmipresent powerQuote:
Originally Posted by swan
It also has a lot to do with human nature and the idea of: "Man is born free, but everywhere in chains"- Jean-Jaques Russiou. Winston (protagonist) is for some reason or another free of mind, when put into comparisons with a majority of the populas. Winston, was always free, until he had his humanity removed from him by the party. The theme is really though, how man will always rebel for freewill.
In the novel they mention the Iquestion (sp?), and Stain's Russia, both of which through grabage to the populas of an oppressive all knowing being will destroy you if you make a mistake, yet both fell. Orwell, was trying to say if Stalin suceeded in spreading his government across the world, then we would have the same thing. There will always be resistance to anything that tries to take away your chioces... but as in 1984 you may not always suceed in thating them back.
"Man" vs "Omnipresent Power" is too vague a theme! Orwell deals with "The Fate of the Individual in the Workings of an Interdependant Civilization". 1984 is a painfully sinister and thorough depiction of an Anti-Utopia.. a condition where a society is established to meet all the needs of it's citizens (a Utopia), yet on a deeper level appears to deny the satisfaction of those needs which are "most important." In 1960's cinema, the idea of the Anti-Hero arrived where the protagonist who we root for is flawed and lacking the essential characteristics of a Hero, yet it is he with whom our sympathies often lie. In today's technological near-Utopia, the conflicting messages of the Media and the Institutions of Consumerism (depicted even more thoroughly in "Brave New World", another great anti-Utopian chiller) have clouded even what those "most important" needs are! The methods of imposing order depicted in 1984 are widely employed in establishing the current status quo (unchanging balance of competing forces) between personal liberty and the FACT that civilized life requires many levels of personal sacrifice of options to achieve "Law and Order". Among the first options targeted by an Institution seeking its own ends are the fun ones - Passions, ever-unpredictable behaviors based on whim and emotion, that undermine the consistent flow of daily life.... etc.