8. Part II chapter III, IV

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals for today 

We will explore some concepts in the novel 

We will explore the setting of the room above Mr Charringtons shop 

We will consider the role and representation of the 'Proles' 

Word of the day

Diaspora(n) - the movement, migration or scattering of people away from the established ancestral homeland 

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer explained that the record is inspired by the sounds of the Black diaspora of then and now.

what do you think the prefix 'dia' means? 

Word of the day

Lucid (n) - clearly expressed and easy to understand, or (of a person) thinking or speaking clearly.

Write down three antonyms for the word lucid. 

He didn’t seem very lucid after the accident.

cloudy, confused, dark, murky, obscure, vague, unclear

Word of the day

Diaspora comes from two Greek roots 'dia' and 'speirein'. 'Dia' means through, across, from point to point; completely. 'Speirein' means to scatter or sow. = to scatter across 

Originally used to specifically refer to the scattering of the Jewish communities outside of Palestine. Now the meaning has broadened.

cloudy, confused, dark, murky, obscure, vague, unclear

AWL

Concepts HL language and literature 

Concepts we explored: 

Control, Rebellion, love, politics, sex 

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Concepts HL language and literature 

Concepts we investigated last week: 

Control, Rebellion, love, politics, sex 

Write in your Teams notebook a maximum of five topics or concepts that you feel are investigated in this novel. 

From these we will generate the top five concepts for our study. 

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Sex in 1984 

' Unlike Winston, she [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader worship. The way she put it was: 

'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.' 

Part II chapter III

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 Andriy

Charlotte 

Louie 

Samuel 

Constance 

Catherina

Huub 

Manuel

Quirine 

Zoe

Francesco

Tashifa 

Sikander 

Roos

Merel 

Cecilia

AWL

Draw what the room above Mr Charrington’s shop looks like. 

Label it with quotations from the text to show your evidence. 

Are there any significant objects or descriptions that you can identify? 

Are there any significant objects or descriptions that you can identify? 

Glass paperweight

Gate-leg table 

mahogany double bed

twelve-hour clock 

mantelpiece 

Rat-hole & rats 

Picture of St Clement's Dane church 

'but the room itself was sanctuary. It was as when Winston had gazed into the heart of the paperweight, with the feeling that it would be possible to get inside that glassy world, and that once inside it time could be arrested.' 

Fender

Oilstove

Saucepan

The room is a place where Winston and Julia are able to create a space for themselves away from the everyday life of the party and Big Brother

It is typified by the inclusion of early twentieth century items which enables Winston and Julia to try and create a life for themselves before Big Brother emerged, removing them from the pressures of the party and creating an idealised and unattainable relationship

1. Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting this setting with the previous description in Part 1 Chapter 1 of Winston's flat. 

The role of the setting 

Role of the proletariat

Who might they be?  

noun:

1. the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labour or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class.
   
2. (in Marxist theory) the class of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive.
   
3. the lowest or poorest class of people, possessing no property, especially in ancient Rome.
   

source: adapted Wikipedia 

Look at the quote your group has been given 

What does the quotation tell us about…

1. Winston’s beliefs about the proles

2. The conditions the proles live in

3. The role the proles could play in this novel

What is the significance of this description of the prole…

What is Orwell's intention; what is the purpose? 

• The proles are anonymous and have a timeless quality that members of the party do not, implying longevity for the proles. Foreshadows the limited time that Winston has with Julia. 
  
• This description implies that the proles embody human feeling and a more 'natural' way of life that Winston and Julia can only try to recreate and are denied by The Party and the system. 
  
• However, the proles as a whole are a passive force, without the desire to rebel and actually believe in The Party’s propaganda as much as Winston and Julia are meant to. 
  
• The proles appear to have a familial support network. This is something The Party members do not have. This makes The Party members vulnerable and isolated. 

'The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism.' 

Part II chapter V

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