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Welcome to 1984

Are we obsessed with the future? How many of you…. get asked about college? get asked about jobs? get asked about what you are doing tomorrow?

Future, future, future What are your feelings about the future? Is is scary or exciting? Think, pair, share with a partner.

Do you think the future will look like this?

George Orwell Wrote novel in 1949.

George Orwell’s World 1940s The world was at war for the second time Economic depression High unemployment $ shortages Restrictions on daily life

George Orwell’s World

George Orwell’s World Major Dictators Benito Mussolini - Italy Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union Adolf Hitler - Germany Beginning of Cold War Iron Curtain Orwell began writing 1984 in 1948

His Future World (1984) What really happened? First Macintosh goes on sale Space Shuttle Discovery makes its first trip First commercial CD player released VMAs started Pop Culture: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1984.html

Utopia: an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More.

What Orwell Included: Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Society gone wrong

What Orwell Included Totalitarianism: a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. Use of science to brainwash society Restricting of freedoms

Setting of 1984 London, England -- AKA Airstrip One The year 1984, but really just sometime in the future Gov’t = totalitarian dictatorship Big Brother: symbol and glorified persona Inner Party: intellectuals devoted to the party Outer Party: powerless middle class Proles: “subhuman” workers

Orwellian Orwellian = of or like the society portrayed by Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four, characterized by totalitarian government, irrational political concepts, the politicization of everyday language, etc.

As You Read: Was Orwell correct in any of his predictions? What words are commonly used today, that were created in Orwell’s 1984?