Resistance and Revolution
Introduction
From Tyner and James (pg. 231), dictators like Hitler of Germany and Stalin in the Soviet Union enthused Orwell’s hate of totalitarianism and political expert. The war for peace started in the year 1984 and was mainly written as a cautionary against dictatorial society. The expression War is Peace has been cast-off more by George Orwell which is the saying of the party. These phrases are freedom is slavery, war is peace and ignorance is strength. The party alleged that they could limitlessly participate in a war to retain peace in a nation. The phrase means that nevertheless, Oceania is continually going through a war state, and persons are acting like peace is all over.
This article portrays Julia as the representation of revolution in the text through her desire to rise against the sexual repression installed by society. Horan alludes to Orwell’s proposition that ethics and community are intuitive rather than intellectual inclinations. While Winston and Julia feel lost in their quest for sexual exploration, they are accommodated by a workers’ group that has resisted the social constructs of ethics and instead value sexual freedom. The diminishment of erotic desire, as well as erosion of language, catalyze the need for a revolution against the ruling elite. The article presents the sexual autonomy of Julia as the antidote to the repression by the ruling group and a catalyst to an imminent revolution. It provides details of how resistance began in the Orwell’s text, thereby providing an analysis of the subtle actions in driving society towards a free state.
Totalitarianism is one of the themes in the novel that was written with the aim of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government. Having perceived immediate the horrifying lengths to which oppressive administrations in Russia and Spain would go to upsurge and sustain rule. Orwell designed 1984 to give an alarm in western countries motionless not sure about how to tactical the increase of communism, and the country of diplomacy amid communist and democratic countries was extremely vague (Solnit and Rebecca pg.112).
Çelikkol analyzes the theme of surveillance in the works of George Orwell. She indicates that Orwell has figuratively reflected society as a prison where people have no privacy and is being observed by the government and religious regimes. She presents the use of public surveillance as an assaultive and punitive on the right to privacy. The article takes its cues from the theoretical depiction of space to offer an alternate argument of the totalitarian approach used by the state to control its people. She argues against intruding into the private domains of people. The article analyzes the love affair between Winston and Julia via to portray the dynamism expressed between the surveillants and the surveilled. She highlights the need for resistance among the governed as they seek to resist the intrusion of their private lives. This would be relevant in offering insight about the concept of resistance and the reasons for a revolution as argued by George Orwell.
Orwell depicts the perfect totalitarian community, the riskiest understanding conceivable of the current day government with complete power. The slight of the novel was destined to designate to its booklovers in 1949 that the story signified a real prospect for the near upcoming, if despotism were not contrasting, the title of the book suggested. Orwell reveals a state of the régime controls and monitors each feature of humanoid life to the range that even having an unfaithful believed is contrary to the rule. As the novel advances, the nervously defiant Winston set out to trial the bounds of the party’s influence.
Johnson discusses how oppressive rhyming aligns to political control and how such perception may lead to the resistance of empty political rhetoric. He indicates that English poetry has been construed to lack rhymes owing to the limitations of the English language. Johnson connects his observations to Orwell’s writings on language and political control and shows how Orwell sought to depict totalitarianism in his poetic resistance to political manipulation. He demonstrates how the elite use rhyming to enhance their political control of a society that is deficient in its language and politics. According to him, a society that can perceive its deficiency in language can become resistant to political rhetoric being used by the totalitarian rulers. Johnson provides a new perspective to analyze the theme of resistance in the work of George Orwell.
According to Orwell is that power is possessed and resistance to power by those in authority it contributes to individuals to resist which contributes to revolution. As per Deleuze, he recognizes an exercise of influence displays up as touch, to incite and produce essential active distresses, while to be provoked to be persuaded to produce constitute reactive affects. Therefore, resistance is most real when it is focused at a method of power rather than at authority, over-all, resistance, in petite encompasses of contradicting these systems (Horan and Thomas pg. 320).
The idea of developing a new society in George Orwell’s 1984 is reminiscent of an imminent revolution. Kalelioglu analyzes this concept in the context of the semiotics trajectory in Paris School. Saussure a legacy highlights the need of dichotomies for signs to gain their meaning in a bid to clarify the concept of semiotics in the school proposed by Greimas. The article is based on the constraints of the desired and the undesired to provide a meaningful analysis of the semiotic square. The desired society develops its meaning relative to the non-desired one. It is reminiscent of the conflict between society and the ruling elite in George Orwell’s text that would often spark a resistance against the rules installed through political control. The opposition theory of Saussure indicates that what is good for the party would not be expected to be good for the opponents. Therefore, the notion of creating an ideal society would authenticate a revolution, as the ruling elite and the opponents would never come into an agreement. The article provides a theory for understanding the basis of resistance in the settings of Orwell’s work and the build-up of a need for a revolution.
Klinger explores the effect of the wave of the technological revolution on the global culture and society. He analyzes two dystopian texts, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, to assess the anticipated global developments concerning matters of private life, close relationships, individual identity, and human culture and nature. He describes the transition from the totalitarian regimes to an autonomous society. The article presents a transformation from the ancient ruling of the elite to modern bio-politics flanked by a revolution in culture industries and bio-economics. The new regime promotes and unleashes autonomy in life contrary to the political and ethical ideals of the previous regime. Therefore, it prompts less opposition and resistance and bolsters compliance and approval. It suggests that domination in this new regime may not be less dangerous because it forces society to devise new ways of critique and resistance. The information provided in the article provides details of the resistance in Orwell’s text and how revolution against the intrusion of the private life developed, sparked by the sexual emancipation sought by Julia and Winston. It offers the appropriate guide to discuss the theme of resistance and revolution as presented by George Orwell.
The article analyzes the relevance of George Orwell’s 1984 amidst the political changes that have been occurring in the last 50 years. The dystopian and post-apocalyptic fantasies in literature make it worthwhile to assess the modernist vision of the future. The dystopian world depicted in the novel may only be brought into existence through a political and Cultural Revolution, rather adherence to the statutes of the ruling elite. The essay identifies the ideological context along with the spatial framework based on which such a world may be achieved about the social and political environment of Oceania in 1984. The article draws on Heidegger’s notion of modernist architectural postulate, that development of space has a direct implication on the creation and subjectivity of a sense of self, more so when history and memory is concerned. This presumption is used regarding the antique shop that represents a resistance space against the ideals of modern technology. Tereszewski presents the dystopia in Orwell’s text as a predication to the omnipresence of the ruling class that was constantly surveilling the privacy of the inhabitants. Such was the depiction of the absolute authority that led to the awakening of the inhabitants into a possibility of dwelling beyond the statutes of the rulers. The essay depicts the authority of Oceania that was looming on the lives of each people leading to resistance and a quest for autonomy. It would imperative in my discussion of the dynamics that would cause a revolution in the society depicted in Orwell’s text.
From the novel is that the objective of Julia is to circumvent the rules and not to challenge them. Julia agrees to collaborate with the system and not to resist and overthrow the party. First, on meeting with Winston, Julia had not come across brotherhood and this leads to her refusing to believe in its existence. The love between Julia and Winston is significant in the real sense that the sexual; act is tactical. According to Winston sexual act was a sign of rebellion. The marriage between the party members was supposed to be approved by the committee and marriage could be declined if it could be found that the members are attracted to one another (Beadle and Gordon pg. 290).
References
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Solnit, Rebecca. Celebrate people’s history: The poster book of resistance and revolution. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2010.
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Beadle, Gordon B. “George Orwell and the Victorian radical tradition.” Albion 7.4 (1975): 287-299.