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1982
- Class of 1984 was released in the United States on August 20, 1982.
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Class of 1984 is a 1982 crime thriller film directed by Mark Lester and co-written by Tom Holland and John Saxton, based on a story by Holland.
A handy reference chart which provides the UK conversions of US school years: in fact, UK Key stages, American grades and the German grading system, courtesy of the Berlin British School. So now we can understand a Sophomore is a 15-16 year old.
- Table of Contents
- What Is Nineteen Eighty-Four About?
- Important Characters
- Key Contextual Ideas
- Main Themes and Analysis
What is Nineteen Eighty-Four about?Before we go into detail about George Orwell’s plot, we should familiarise ourselves with the dystopian world in Nineteen Eighty-Four (note that it’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, not1984).
Winston Smith
Winston is our protagonist. As an Outer Party member, his freedoms are strictly confined by the regime and he is not ranked highly enough to receive any privileges. He is 39 years old and the novel makes several references to a varicose vein on his leg. He rebels with a dream to overthrow Big Brother’s regime.
Big Brother
Big Brother is the figurehead of Ingsoc and the totalitarian dictator of Oceania. It’s not clear whether Big Brother is a person who actually exists, but even the belief that there is a greater power looking over the nation is enough to command loyalty from most citizens.
The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood is thought to be a coordinated underground rebellion against the Party. Like Big Brother, we never see proof that it actually exists. Nevertheless, the belief that it exists motivates Winston and Julia to rebel.
George Orwell
Orwell was an Indian-born British writer known for his social criticism and advocacy for democratic socialism. Orwell’s experiences as an imperial police officer in Burma, voluntarily living in the slums of London, and witnessing the horrendous acts committed by fascist regimes during the Spanish Civil War shaped his strong opposition to political control. Nineteen Eighty-Four is only one of his many works, including the highly influential political satire Animal Farm(1945), that challenge to...
End of WWII
Orwell began writing Nineteen Eighty-Four only a few years after the end of World War II and the novel contains many references to the nuclear warfare that the U.S. instigated with Japan. The under-supplied and bland living conditions of Oceania were also probably inspired by those in London during WWII. Furthermore, Orwell captures the atmosphere of paranoia and uncertainty that clouded all nations during the war that threatened global destruction.
Spanish Civil War
Orwell was initially supportive of the Spanish Revolution and even volunteered to fight against the Fascist government in the Spanish Civil War (you can read his autobiographical account of this in Homage to Catalonia). However, he became disillusioned by the atrocities committed by both sides. Events like organised purges conducted by the Nationalist forces and mass executions by the Republicans were all real events that Orwell emulates in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell uses Nineteen Eighty-Fo...
Surveillance and propaganda
The Party demands the sole attention and commitment of its people, and prevents its citizens from finding greater value in other relationships and experiences that could undermine their loyalty to the Party. This is stated with a factly tone in what Winston believed to be Goldstein’s Manifesto: “A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm.” In order to enforce this, the Party creates the impression that they are constantly monitoring each citizen and...
Absolute control
Orwell portrays a frightening world where the government has complete control over every action, motivation and thought that its citizens have. With this, the government is able to impose any ideology that suits their regime, even if it is completely absurd. The Party’s paradoxical slogan “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” is a recurring example of this. In fact, the citizens of the regime help enforce the Party’s control by reporting any unorthodox behaviour, even if t...
Freedom and Identity
The citizens of Oceania are barred from any freedoms because any individual thought or identity that does not exactly align with the Party’s regime threatens its infallible status. Winston’s diary, coral paperweight, and relationship with Julia symbolise his desire to be autonomous and to be appreciated as a unique individual. The only people in Oceania who actually have any form of freedom are the proles, but they will never rebel because they don’t know any better and they will never experi...
Class of 1984. Summaries. A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
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Class of 1984 is a 1982 crime thriller film directed by Mark Lester and co-written by Tom Holland and John Saxton, based on a story by Holland. The film stars Perry King , Merrie Lynn Ross (who also served as co-executive producer), Timothy Van Patten , Lisa Langlois , Stefan Arngrim , Michael J. Fox , and Roddy McDowall .
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
