Orwell's Satirical View of Romantic Love in the Terrorized World of Nineteen Eighty-Four

Mohammad Hossein Besharati,Sayed Mohammad Anoosheh,Golnar Mazdayasna

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.6p.78

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The beginning of twentieth century was accompanied with the prevailing current of technology in different aspects of human life. At first, it incited a positive stimulus which could build a utopian world on the advancement of technology. However, the bloody World Wars averted this view and the technological utopia was replaced by Orwellian dystopia. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a satirical work which moves against Wells' utopian toward the reflection of a distorted technological society. Undoubtedly, satire is the best literary mode for dystopic depiction of the world specifically the one portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Winston Smith, the central character of this novel, is lower from his society in terms of intelligence and power of action. Therefore, he is put under rigid controls and brainwashing. And at last, he awfully rejects his love in favor the principles of the Party. Thus, in this study, we try to investigate Winston's romantic life in a satiric manner with respect to Northrop Frye's theme of romance which includes the three phase of agon, pathos and anagnorisis.

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The entire situation in the opening decades of the twentieth century was a welter of new and powerful ideas which shook the foundation of the older value-scale world but made the problem of choice extremely difficult by being antithetical to each other
Wells (18661946), who once strongly believed that a utopian achievement of science was possible which was a shift of optimistic view of life which later became pessimistic
The main aim of this paper is not to trace the history of satire as a genre, but to pass references to satire, because the novel that have been taken up for analysis is a satirical pieces clothed in fantasy

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The entire situation in the opening decades of the twentieth century was a welter of new and powerful ideas which shook the foundation of the older value-scale world but made the problem of choice extremely difficult by being antithetical to each other. The result of such move was uncertainties in every sphere of life. Wells vehemently held the view that science and education would outlaw war, poverty, and squalor. His view remained only a glorious and unrealizable dream. As a new dark age emerged out of the wars the dream was almost permanently eclipsed

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