1984 Part 2 Assessment by Gavin Kennedy [Student OVHS]

1984 Part 2 Assessment by Gavin Kennedy [Student OVHS] https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer en-us 2018-11-10 01:43:33 UTC 2018-11-30 16:56:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Gavin Kennedy Passage 1 gskennedy100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302813229 Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. He felt that if he held up his hand he would be able to see the light through it. All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin. All sensations seemed to be magnified. His overalls fretted his shoulders, the pavement tickled his feet, even the opening and closing of a hand was an effort that made his joints creak.

He had worked more than ninety hours in five days. So had everyone else in the Ministry. Now it was all over, and he had literally nothing to do, no Party work of any description, until tomorrow morning. He could spend six hours in the hiding-place and another nine in his own bed. Slowly, in mild afternoon sunshine, he walked up a dingy street in the direction of Mr Charrington's shop, keeping one eye open for the patrols, but irrationally convinced that this afternoon there was no danger of anyone interfering with him. The heavy brief-case that he was carrying bumped against his knee at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg. Inside it was the book, which he had now had in his possession for six days and had not yet opened, nor even looked at.

Veil: This is from part 2, chapter 9, on the working conditions in Oceania

Type of Satire: juvenalian- The passage has a dark and depressed tone, which was set because of the description of Winston after he had worked 95 hours in five days. He didn't chose to work 95 of his 120 hours of the five days, but was forced because the government had full control of him. Forcing someone to work this many hours and talking about the effects is to show the vice of what Eurasia and Big Brother are doing to it citizens.

Tools of Satire: Verbal irony is used in this passage when he says that he nothing to do, but "spend six hours in the hiding-place". This is ironic because he got done with the 95 hours of work in five days in the Ministry of Truth and he is going to a place where he wants to against what the Party allows, meaning have his own privacy. It doesn't seem too truthful to go behind the government's back and hide from them.

The Target: The target of the passage is to compare the working conditions to that in the USSR installed by Stalin. They had to work countless hours for not much in return. For 95 hours of work in five days for the government, there should be a higher reward than to live in a run down house. This highlights what the USSR gave to their citizens in return for the long hours.

]]> 2018-11-10 01:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302813229 Ethan Williams Passage 1 ejwilliams101 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302824827 During the Two Minutes Hate she always excelled all others in shouting insults at Goldstein. Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent. She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties. Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination: and in any case the Party was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same. You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up.
(Part 2, Ch. 5)

The Veil: In this passage, Winston and Julia are at the Two Minutes of Hate. Winston is ridiculing Julia because he doesn't feel that she has the right to insult Goldstein because she doesn't have a real factual knowledge of who Goldstein is.

Type of Satire-- Juvenalian: Winston used a very grating and severe tone as he is scorning Julia. It angers him that Julia is insulting Goldstein without having factual evidence to to really be mad at him about. He continues by saying that she is does not have the the capacity to be able to carry out a movement such as the one that she is aiming towards. The grating tone that he uses is shown during this entire scene where he is directing all of his anger at Julia. He gets mad at people that are acting in ignorance, but he does not directly show this to Julia. He directs all of this hate towards her, but is keeping it all to himself.

Tools of Satire: Verbal irony and Juxtaposition are shown in this passage. Verbal irony is seen when Winston says, "Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent." This is due to us being able to see that Julia is shunning Goldstein, while not even knowing who this person is or what he represents. Juxtaposition is shown as well when Winston says, "Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination..." This shows what Winston thinks about Julia comprising a movement. He tells us that Julia and starting a movement are two things that don't fit together.

The Target: The target here in this passage would be Stalin of the USSR. He ignorantly killed and insulted thousands of people who he had no factual evidence against. He just did it out of his own anger.

]]> 2018-11-10 05:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302824827 Ethan Williams Passage 2 ejwilliams101 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302824913 He tried to make her understand. ‘This was an exceptional case. It wasn’t just a question of somebody being killed. Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories. Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evi- dence after the event—years after it.’
(Part 2, Ch. 5)

The Veil: The subject of this passage is Winston trying to explain to Julia that the Party took history and painted their own picture over it. He explains the they used this to make her and the others believe everything that they tell them

Type of Satire-- Juvenalian- The tone that Winston uses in this passage is very straightforward, as well as assertive. He is trying to explain to Julia that the Party is lying to everybody about the past and what they should believe. He doesn't say this in a ridiculing way towards her, but for the Party. As he is talking to her, he is trying to persuade her to come to this realization, which is why he is being straight up and honest when speaking with her. He continues his use of satire towards the Party, which is a strategy that he uses in order to make the situation clear. He understands things that others don't and is using these tools to make his claim.

Tools of Satire: In this passage, exaggeration and paradox are used. Exaggeration is shown when Winston is convincing Julia to believe what he knows about the party. "Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution." Although, what Winston is saying in this quote is factual, he is doing his best to stretch the the truth of the dreadful things that the Party has done to their society. He says that they know "literally" nothing about the Revolution to make her feel persuade her more effectively than if he said that they don't know very much. Paradox is shown here when looking at what Julia believes, compared to what Winston believes. "Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories." This quote helps paint the picture of what Winston knows, as opposed to what Julia knows. Winston

knows the truth of what their world is really supposed to be, while Julia also believes that she knows what the truth of their world is supposed to.
These two beliefs cause a direct paradox between these two characters.

The Target: The target in this particular passage would be Stalin's USSR, as well. More specifically, the way that Stalin blinded the people of his communist society of the truth. He told them all sorts of lies to make them believe that he was basically a god.

]]> 2018-11-10 05:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/302824913 Gavin Kennedy Passage 2 gskennedy100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303498754 Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On the third day Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department to look at the notice-board. One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee, of whom Syme had been one. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before -- nothing had been crossed out -- but it was one name shorter. It was enough. Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed.

The weather was baking hot. In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one's feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror. The preparations for Hate Week were in full swing, and the staffs of all the Ministries were working overtime. Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. Julia's unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets. Winston, in addition to his regular work, spent long periods every day in going through back files of The Times and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches. Late at night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously febrile air. The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.

Veil: Part two, chapter five on the disappearance of Syme, and the rush to prepare for hate week.

Type of Satire: Juvenalian- The passage has a skeptical and curious tone because some that Winston had known, Syme, had disappeared with no trace and no real talk about him. He had found out that he had been erased by orders of the government because they had seized him to most likely be executed or put to a labor camp like Winston had predicted. It is assumed that he was taken for being too smart. The passage also shows how Winston doesn't really care that someone had gone missing because it was so normal.

Tools of Satire: Verbal Irony is a tool used because the Ministry of Truth has basically deleted someone from existence. The truth is that person did exist, but the Party saw that person as a threat and so made people forget him by deleting all files on him. "One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the Chess Committee, of whom Syme had been one. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before -- nothing had been crossed out". This quote proves that where Syme did have proof of life, had now been deleted.

The Target: The target is to show the measures that the USSR went to in order to keep a threat under control or keep in members under its control by eliminating that threat.]]> 2018-11-12 22:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303498754 Vince Huljev Passage 1 vrhuljev100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303587457 Their sad Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks, utterly incurious. Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all prisoners were wearing leg irons. Truckload after truckload of sad faces passed. Winston knew they were there, but he saw them only
intermittently.

The Veil: Winston is observing a truck go by, and is surveying whats on it, which happens to be prisoners. He saw them intermittently, meaning he didnt always see the prisoners, but he knew the trucks were filled with them. Satire: Juvenalian
The way the trucks and guards are described is probably a little over exaggerated, and the author could be making it worse than it seems.
Tools of Satire: Hyperbole is shown in this passage when describing the trucks and the prisoners inside. saying "utterly incurious" shows that all of the prisoners have seemed to given up. but its very unlikely all of them had lost hope.
The Target: Hitlers Nazi society was known for gathering Jews and throwing them into trains, which would then go to concentration camps. Orwell could be making a parallel here, since these prisoners were in "a long line of trucks"

]]> 2018-11-13 07:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303587457 Vince Huljev Passage 2 vrhuljev100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303594108 She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest. “And a good job too,” said Julia. “Otherwise they'd have had a name out of him when he confessed.” Since then there had been various others. Life as she saw it was quite simple. You wanted a good time; “they,” meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. She seemed to think it just as natural that “they” should want to avoid being caught. She hated the party, and said so in the crudest words, but she made no general criticism of it.
The Veil: The veil of this text is Julia's hated for the party. She does what she can to do wrong against it, without actually getting in trouble.
Satire: Horatian
This text adds a little bit of humor to the darkness that is 1984, and that's why I classify it as horatian. Julia is talking about how she sleeps with members of the party so they commit suicide to avoid getting in trouble, its a laughable concept. The tone in this passage is also lighter than the rest of the story.
Tools of Satire: Irony is used in this passage, because Julia is seducing members of the Party to sleep with her when they arent supposed to, then getting them to commit suicide. They know what they are doing is wrong, so to get out of it, the Party members end their own lives.
The Target: The target of this text could be Stalin's USSR, where if one of his higher ups did something they weren't supposed to, they would sometimes kill themselves. The reason for this is because they thought dying would be a better option that whatever Stalin would have in mind for them.]]> 2018-11-13 07:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303594108 Kelii Passage 1 kgreiner100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303831364 “You thought I was a good party member. Pure in
word and deed. Banners, processions, slogans, games,
community hikes-all that stuff. And you thought that if I had
quarter of a chance I’d denounce you as a thought-criminal
and get you killed off?”
“Yes something of that kind. A great many young girls are like
that, you know.”
The Veil: This quote is located in Chapter 2 Part 2. This quote is said between Julia and Winston at their "secret meeting place" in the brush. Julia tells Winston that she is not part of the thought police relieving Winston of his paranoia of being hunted down by her.
Type of Satire: Juvenalian When Julia is answering Winston her tone is stern but not in a rude way. She describes the duties of a party member and how they would make fun of Winston for thinking she is a thought police.
Tools Of Satire: Exaggeration
Julia states a long list of the duties of a what a good party
member carries out. She uses different examples of what
they do, and I’m sure not every party member carry through with it. She just wanted to prove a point.
The Target:
The Target is Hitler’s youth camps because Hitler tried to create the
next generation of the Nazi party. They were brainwashed to the "norms" of the society and they were commanded to commit all of the necessary duties
given to them. They were to turn in people who go against the
Nazi party even their own family members.]]> 2018-11-13 16:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303831364 Kelli Passage 2 kgreiner100 https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303843981 “As he passed through the lavatory door he transferred it to his pocket and felt it with the tips of his
ngers. It was a scrap of paper folded into a square. While he
stood at the urinal he managed, with a little more fingering,
to get it unfolded. Obviously there must be a message of some
kind written on it. For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water closets and read it at once. But that would be shocking folly, as he well knew. There was no place where you could be more certain that the telescreens were
watched continuously.”
The Veil:
This text was taken from part 2 in chapter 2. The man was urge to read the note that was playing with in his pocket because he knew there was some type of message for him to read. But knew he couldn’t do to
the fact that a telescreen could be watching.
Type of Satire:
The tone being set in the text can be sensed as paranoid and
tense. While he was trying to get a glimpse of the note he felt
very timid because it seemed like they were looking at
everyone of his movements.
Tools of Satire: Censorship
Winston was too afraid to read the note. He knew he couldn’t
so he just threw in on top of a pile of papers. He was afraid of the telescreen looking at his every move. ]]> 2018-11-13 16:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gskennedy100/silt59j3rmer/wish/303843981