ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Dystopian Literature 18 1984 Politics 102 Views
Share It!
Description:
Does 1984 reference any real world politics? We think it would've been cute had Big Brother played a sax, à la Bill Clinton, but no one asked us.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Nineteen Eighty for
- 00:08
politics last month There's nineteen Eighty for reference Any riel
- 00:15
world politics It's definitely referencing orwell's politics in his reactions
- 00:20
to what he saw as government propaganda orwell also had
- 00:25
very clear feelings about language and how it affect people's
Full Transcript
- 00:31
ability to think so who basically said our thoughts become
- 00:35
foolish when we use sort of degraded language By that
- 00:39
he just meant people who didn't know how to write
- 00:41
clearly and simply orwell was israel advocate for here direct
- 00:48
language And that idea that american culture was kind of
- 00:52
degrading and becoming more casual was also really important to
- 00:57
him Does nineteen Eighty for reference Any riel world politics