Context and Authorial Purpose (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards
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Context in literature
Context in literature
Circumstances surrounding text's creation & reception
Dystopian fiction genre
Dystopian fiction genre
Imagines nightmarish futures to critique present-day trends
Allegory
Allegory
Story commenting on/criticising society as warning
What 1984 satirises
What 1984 satirises
Totalitarianism (modelled on Soviet communism)
Vaporisation in 1984
Vaporisation in 1984
Consequence of thoughtcrime; disappearance/erasure of person
Newspeak function
Newspeak function
Controls through language; narrows range of thought
Telescreens
Telescreens
Orwell's prediction of wall-mounted flatscreen TVs
Big Brother based on
Big Brother based on
Stalin
Emmanuel Goldstein based on
Emmanuel Goldstein based on
Leon Trotsky (exiled Soviet Bolshevik leader)
Orwell's political identity
Orwell's political identity
Democratic socialist