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* MisaimedFandom: If you think Orwell was solely attacking DirtyCommunists (or, worse, liberals), you've missed the point. Fascist totalitarian regimes and religious theocracies can grow from other movements as well.
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* MisaimedFandom: If you think Orwell was solely attacking DirtyCommunists (or, worse, liberals), you've missed the point. Fascist totalitarian regimes and religious theocracies can grow from other movements as well. The reverse is true, as well.
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*** A more optimistic one would be that O'Brian was part of the Brotherhood, but deemed Winston and Julia to be unfit for it because they stated at the first meeting that they had no qualms with burning a childs face with acid and similar horrible things.
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*** A more optimistic one would be that O'Brian was part of the Brotherhood, but deemed Winston and Julia to be unfit for it because they stated at the first meeting that they had no qualms with burning a childs child's face with acid and similar horrible things.
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\"repressed sexual energy\" has probably more to do with Freud\'s Oedipus complex theory, than with Oedipus the mythic king of Thebes.
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** Also, Winston's ulcerated ankle is a metaphor for repressed sexual energy dating from [[OlderThanDirt the story of Oedipus]].
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** Also, Winston's ulcerated ankle is a metaphor for repressed sexual energy dating from [[OlderThanDirt the story of Oedipus]].energy.
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* LawfulEvil: O'Brien, and really the entire Party, might qualify as the best example in twentieth century literature.
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**** But if that were true, O'Brien would have no qualms about brutally torturing people, so why would he be good Brotherhood material and Winston and Julia wouldn't be? Splashing acid in a child's face is tame compared to what he does to Winston.
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**** But >>>>But if that were true, O'Brien would have no qualms about brutally torturing people, so why would he be good Brotherhood material and Winston and Julia wouldn't be? Splashing acid in a child's face is tame compared to what he does to Winston.
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****But if that were true, O'Brien would have no qualms about brutally torturing people, so why would he be good Brotherhood material and Winston and Julia wouldn't be? Splashing acid in a child's face is tame compared to what he does to Winston.
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**To be fair, Winston was fairly certain O'Brien could get him out of HellOnEarth.
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Does not need to be potholed.
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* ItWasHisSled: Some editions even put the incredibly important final four words on ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint the back of the book]].'' For the record, they are: "[[spoiler:He loved Big Brother.]]"
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* ItWasHisSled: Some editions even put the incredibly important final four words on ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint the ''the back of the book]].book.'' For the record, they are: "[[spoiler:He loved Big Brother.]]"
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* MusicToInvadePolandTo: ''[[http://youtu.be/_p9_7xXlR0s Oceania, 'Tis of Thee]]'' from the 1984 film.
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* '''''HighOctaneNightmareFuel''''': Pretty much everything that happens inside the Ministry of Love qualifies.
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* '''''HighOctaneNightmareFuel''''': '''''HighOctaneNightmareFuel'''''
** Pretty much everything that happens inside the Ministry of Lovequalifies.qualifies.
** In Radford's 1984 adaptation, the {{Room 101}} scene. The rat cage. ''The rat cage''. If you have a phobia of vermin, it's unwatchable.
** Pretty much everything that happens inside the Ministry of Love
** In Radford's 1984 adaptation, the {{Room 101}} scene. The rat cage. ''The rat cage''. If you have a phobia of vermin, it's unwatchable.
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* ItWasHisSled: Some editions even put the incredibly important final four words on ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint the back of the book]].'' For the record, they are: "[[spoiler:He loved Big Brother.]]"
** The line is only important in context. A reader who read that line on the back of the book before reading may have instead assumed it came from the beginning of the book.
** The line is only important in context. A reader who read that line on the back of the book before reading may have instead assumed it came from the beginning of the book.
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* SciFiGhetto: Many literature professors will get ''very angry'' if you call this "Science Fiction," even though it's set in the future, with a level of surveillance impossible at the book's writing central to the plot and tone and the climax clearly relying on some sort of ultra-sophisticated psychological profiling.
** Not to mention the otherworldly pyramid architecture of the Ministry buildings. While not necessarily containing an outright sci-fi element, their description evokes a futuristic, utopian feel.
** Not to mention the otherworldly pyramid architecture of the Ministry buildings. While not necessarily containing an outright sci-fi element, their description evokes a futuristic, utopian feel.
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* HoYay: Winston is pretty obsessed with O'Brien
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**** Also, they didn't prove themselves in Room 101 that they cannot be broken.
** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of Peace is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
* CharacterAlignment:
** ChaoticGood: Winston, Julia.
** LawfulNeutral: Parsons.
** TrueNeutral: Mrs. Parsons.
** LawfulEvil: Outwardly, the Party is this.
** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing other than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of Peace is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
* CharacterAlignment:
** ChaoticGood: Winston, Julia.
** LawfulNeutral: Parsons.
** TrueNeutral: Mrs. Parsons.
** LawfulEvil: Outwardly, the Party is this.
** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing other than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
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** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's
* CharacterAlignment:
** ChaoticGood: Winston, Julia.
** LawfulNeutral: Parsons.
** TrueNeutral: Mrs. Parsons.
** LawfulEvil: Outwardly, the Party is this.
** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing other than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh6cFBUamJk&feature=related Sex crime!]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: It's briefly discussed that the Minitrue has a section dedicated to producing porn, which Julia works for. The porn is [[IKEAErotica barely considered sexual]], and is more SoBadItsGood than anything else. [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Almost sixty years later]]...
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* HilariousInHindsight: It's briefly discussed that the Minitrue has a section dedicated to producing porn, which Julia works for. The porn is [[IKEAErotica barely considered sexual]], sexual or erotic]], and is more SoBadItsGood than anything else. [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Almost sixty years later]]...
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* MisaimedMarketing: The extremely famous 1984 Super Bowl Ad for Apple Computers.
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* MisaimedMarketing: The extremely famous 1984 Super Bowl Ad for Apple Computers.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given that the Party's doctrine is that of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternate Reality Interpretation]], and that the viewpoint character is repeatedly {{mind rape}}d in the end, it can be argued that we don't know what really happens post-Room 101. All that can be trusted is what Winston sees with his own eyes up until the cage snaps shut.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Given that the Party's doctrine is that of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternate Reality Interpretation]], and that the viewpoint character is repeatedly {{mind rape}}d in the end, it can be argued that we don't know what really happens post-Room 101. All that can be trusted is what Winston sees with his own eyes up until the cage snaps shut.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9_7xXlR0s Fascist, yes, but stirring.]]
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* LawfulEvil: O'Brien, and really the entire Party, might qualify as the MostTriumphantExample in twentieth century literature.
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* LawfulEvil: O'Brien, and really the entire Party, might qualify as the MostTriumphantExample best example in twentieth century literature.
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** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
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* CharacterAlignment:
** ChaoticGood: Winston, Julia.
** LawfulNeutral: Parsons.
** TrueNeutral: Mrs. Parsons.
** LawfulEvil: Outwardly, the Party is this.
** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
** ChaoticGood: Winston, Julia.
** LawfulNeutral: Parsons.
** TrueNeutral: Mrs. Parsons.
** LawfulEvil: Outwardly, the Party is this.
** NeutralEvil: Ultimately, however, the Party is out for nothing than pure power, as O'Brien reveals.
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** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of War is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
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** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of War Peace is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
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** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of War is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
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** The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given by the Ministry of Plenty to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of War is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
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**The Ministries may actually be true to their names [[FromACertainPointOfView from a certain point of view.]] and using The Party's way of thinking. The Ministry of Truth can be justified with doublethink, you may be able to consider the rations you are given to be "plenty" from Big Brother's logicc, the Ministry of War is justified through "WAR IS PEACE" and the Ministry of Love is where you learn to love Big Brother.
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* '''''ParanoiaFuel''''': Almost certainly, the worst part in 1984 is that it's plausible.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Pretty much everything that happens inside the Ministry of Love qualifies.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: '''''HighOctaneNightmareFuel''''': Pretty much everything that happens inside the Ministry of Love qualifies.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given that the Party's doctrine is that of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternate Reality Interpretation]], and that the viewpoint character is repeatedly {{mind rape}}d in the end, it can be argued that we don't know what really happens post-Room 101. All that can be trusted is what Winston sees with his own eyes up until the cage snaps shut.
** Also, since he doesn't leave Airstrip One, we have no clue as to the state of the world - is Oceania real? Is it the entire world? Is there a Brotherhood after all? Nothing can be taken for granted, even the InfoDump book that pops up halfway through (''especially'' the book, given that one of the Inner Party members claims credit for its authorship, and hands out copies).
*** It's a little bit of a stretch but we can't be exactly sure if Party even controls entire [[strike: British Isle]] Airstrip One. Could be half of it, just England or hell, maybe only London and its imminent surrounding. Which might explain whole "running out of resources" thing.
** A common suggestion is that the 'scholarly' appendix on Newspeak is written in a manner that deliberately subverts this DownerEnding, given that it ''is'' [[spoiler:written in the past tense...]].
*** It should be noted that when 1984 was to first be published in America, the publisher wished to remove the appendix, but Orwell refused to have it published without, saying that the book would have to be reworked if such a large chunk was to be cut out. This incident, along with a few hand-picked statements of Orwell around the time the book was written, form the basis for including the appendix into the work.
*** We explicitly never do learn if there's a Brotherhood or not. An alternate, admittedly optimistic interpretation would be that the Brotherhood did exist and that O'Brien was part of it, and that Winston and Julia's capture and death were in fact due to the latter's refusal to give up everything for the Brotherhood.
*** That's not optimistic at all. It just shows that the people rebelling against the government are just as bad as the government, and that the only thing that would change if they won was the size of Big Brother's moustache.
*** A more optimistic one would be that O'Brian was part of the Brotherhood, but deemed Winston and Julia to be unfit for it because they stated at the first meeting that they had no qualms with burning a childs face with acid and similar horrible things.
**** Also, they didn't prove themselves in Room 101 that they cannot be broken.
** Also, since he doesn't leave Airstrip One, we have no clue as to the state of the world - is Oceania real? Is it the entire world? Is there a Brotherhood after all? Nothing can be taken for granted, even the InfoDump book that pops up halfway through (''especially'' the book, given that one of the Inner Party members claims credit for its authorship, and hands out copies).
*** It's a little bit of a stretch but we can't be exactly sure if Party even controls entire [[strike: British Isle]] Airstrip One. Could be half of it, just England or hell, maybe only London and its imminent surrounding. Which might explain whole "running out of resources" thing.
** A common suggestion is that the 'scholarly' appendix on Newspeak is written in a manner that deliberately subverts this DownerEnding, given that it ''is'' [[spoiler:written in the past tense...]].
*** It should be noted that when 1984 was to first be published in America, the publisher wished to remove the appendix, but Orwell refused to have it published without, saying that the book would have to be reworked if such a large chunk was to be cut out. This incident, along with a few hand-picked statements of Orwell around the time the book was written, form the basis for including the appendix into the work.
*** We explicitly never do learn if there's a Brotherhood or not. An alternate, admittedly optimistic interpretation would be that the Brotherhood did exist and that O'Brien was part of it, and that Winston and Julia's capture and death were in fact due to the latter's refusal to give up everything for the Brotherhood.
*** That's not optimistic at all. It just shows that the people rebelling against the government are just as bad as the government, and that the only thing that would change if they won was the size of Big Brother's moustache.
*** A more optimistic one would be that O'Brian was part of the Brotherhood, but deemed Winston and Julia to be unfit for it because they stated at the first meeting that they had no qualms with burning a childs face with acid and similar horrible things.
**** Also, they didn't prove themselves in Room 101 that they cannot be broken.
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* FountainOfMemes: Screw "TheCakeIsALie", this is the work that informs modern life, with "Big Brother" and "BigBrotherIsWatching You", "doublethink" "{{Unperson}}", "thought crime" and "thought police", and "Room101". While we're at it, there's the [[strike: the war with Eastasia]] Eastasia is our ally. We were always at war with Eurasia.
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* MisaimedFandom: If you think Orwell was solely attacking DirtyCommunists (or, worse, liberals), you've missed the point. Fascist totalitarian regimes can grow from other political movements as well.
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* MemeticMutation[=/=]FountainOfMemes: Screw "TheCakeIsALie", this is the work that informs modern life, with "Big Brother" and "BigBrotherIsWatching You", "doublethink" "{{Unperson}}", "thought crime" and "thought police", and "Room101". While we're at it, there's the [[strike: the war with Eastasia]] Eastasia is our ally. We were always at war with Eurasia. Really, the government in the novel pretty much communicates to the public almost entirely through memes.
** Artefacts of the pre-Party times survive as memes too: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
* MisaimedFandom: If you think Orwell was solely attacking DirtyCommunists (or, worse, liberals), you've missed the point. Fascist totalitarian regimes and religious theocracies can grow from otherpolitical movements as well.well.
* MisaimedMarketing: The extremely famous 1984 Super Bowl Ad for Apple Computers.
** Artefacts of the pre-Party times survive as memes too: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
* MisaimedFandom: If you think Orwell was solely attacking DirtyCommunists (or, worse, liberals), you've missed the point. Fascist totalitarian regimes and religious theocracies can grow from other
* MisaimedMarketing: The extremely famous 1984 Super Bowl Ad for Apple Computers.
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I believe whoever wrote this originally meant to say \"we were always at war with Eurasia\", as Oceania is where the story takes place.
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* FountainOfMemes: Screw "TheCakeIsALie", this is the work that informs modern life, with "Big Brother" and "BigBrotherIsWatching You", "doublethink" "{{Unperson}}", "thought crime" and "thought police", and "Room101". While we're at it, there's the [[strike: the war with Eastasia]] Eastasia is our ally. We were always at war with Oceania.Eurasia.
