Form, Structure, and Language (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards

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Narrative perspective in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Third-person limited, focalized through Winston Smith

Three-part structure of 1984

Part 1: awakening, Part 2: hope/love, Part 3: demolition

Newspeak purpose

Invented language designed to limit thought and control citizens

Doublethink definition

Holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously as both true

Party slogans in 1984

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

Glass paperweight symbolism

Fragile interiority and delicate nature of private experience

Golden country motif meaning

Natural beauty, freedom, and human connection

Paratactic style in Orwell's prose

Short, clipped sentences mimicking mechanised existence

Linguistic determinism in 1984

Theory that language shapes thought; Party controls via words

Satirical oxymorons examples

Ministry of Truth deals lies; Ministry of Love tortures

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