Exploring Ideas Related to Working Class and Women LO: To consider the effects of propaganda and language manipulation.

Consider:

"They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 71 Possible reflection questions: What is the tone of the quote? Complimentary, disparaging, critical… What is the effect of the words used on you, the reader? This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X2 + 30 = 150). End

"If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 72 Possible reflection questions: What is the general meaning? Who is the quote portraying? How do you know this? What is the tone of the quote? Complimentary, disparaging, critical… What is the effect of the words used on you, the reader? This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X2 + 30 = 150). End

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 74 Possible reflection questions: What is the general meaning? Who is the quote portraying? How do you know this? What is the tone of the quote? Complimentary, disparaging, critical… What is the effect of the words used on you, the reader? This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X2 + 30 = 150). End

"a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 77 Possible reflection questions: What is the general meaning? Who is the quote portraying? How do you know this? What is the tone of the quote? Complimentary, disparaging, critical… What is the effect of the words used on you, the reader? This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X2 + 30 = 150). End

"everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.“ Part 2, Chapter 10, pg. 222 Possible reflection questions: What is the general meaning? Who is the quote portraying? How do you know this? What is the tone of the quote? Complimentary, disparaging, critical… What is the effect of the words used on you, the reader? This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X2 + 30 = 150). End

Which is the more accurate representation of the working class in the novel?