Message of the movie 1984

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

short summary

meaning

• totalitarianism

• newspeak

• Orwell‘s intention

Structure

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

first part

• Winston's life

• political and economic situation

second part

• Winston and Julia

• underground organisation

third part

• imprisonment and torture

Short summary

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

totalitarian system

• based on radical and anti-democratic ideologies

• regime controls everything

• citizens monitored, isolated …

• mass deportations, torture summary executions …

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

Meaning of the movie 1984

newspeak

• simplification of the language

• people easy to handle

Orwell‘s intention

• change the date

1948 1984

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

English 2011 by Simon Fritsch

Thanks for your attention

sources:

• Wikipedia• http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/