12.Part III chapter I, II & III

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals for today 

Stalin's  show trials 

Rate the word 1 to 4

1. I do not know the word, and I have never seen it before. 

2. I've heard or seen the word before, but I'm not sure what it means. 

3. I know the word and can recognise and understand it while reading, but I probably wouldn't feel comfortable using it in writing or speech. 

4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

Fiasco 

Word of the day

Fiasco (n) - a failure 

From Italian fiasco (a flask or bottle) 

This word is associated with bottles because glassblowers, in learning to blow glass properly, made many mistakes and ended up with badly misshapen bottles. 

 

We hoped the school play would be a great success, but it turned out to be a fiasco.

Word of the day

Write three synonyms for fiasco.

Use one of your synonyms in a sentence that shows you understand the meaning. 

Word of the day

Synonyms Fiasco (n) - a failure 

misadventure, misstep, defeat, blunder, debacle, failure

The Stasi - Orwell's predictions become reality

Under Erich Mielke, the Stasi's director from 1957 to 1989, the Stasi became a highly effective secret police organization. Within East Germany it sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life, including even intimate personal and familial relationships. It accomplished this goal both through its official apparatus and through a vast network of informants and unofficial collaborators (inoffizielle Mitarbeiter), who spied on and denounced colleagues, friends, neighbours, and even family members. By 1989 the Stasi relied on 500,000 to 2,000,000 collaborators as well as 100,000 regular employees, and it maintained files on approximately 6,000,000 East German citizens—more than one-third of the population.

(adapted: www.britannica.com) 

​

​

1989 citizens occupied the Stasi offices throughout East Germany. 

16,000 bags of torn documents, which were awaiting shredding were collected. These each contained approx. 3,500 fragments. 

Stasi files were still available for several citizens who discovered that friends, lovers, colleagues and family members, including children or parents, had spied and informed on them.

The Stasi - Orwell's predictions become reality

In Team notebook content library read the article: "Experience: my brother spied on me for the Stasi" 

Write a confession from Ulrich to his brother Peter in your class notebook. Use information from 1984 to understand how he may have been manipulated and indoctrinated

​

​

Tone shift 

Part III begins Winston's punishment and “correction.” Winston’s torture re-emphasises one of the novel's  themes of the fundamental horror of physical pain. Winston cannot stop the torture or prevent the psychological control O’Brien gains from torturing him, and when the guard smashes his elbow, he thinks that nothing in the world is worse than physical pain.

​

​

The Moscow show trials 

The trials were not to establish guilt or innocence, but were for public and foreign consumption. Foreign and Russian journalists reported daily on the confessions and events at court. All were found guilty and later executed. 

Who is Ampleforth? When have we met him before?

Goals for today 

Homework check and feedback

Considering the character of Parsons and the historical context.

Consider an example of social control and spying 

Consider power as depicted in an extract 

Answer these questions for chapter IX

1. Who is the first prisoner that Winston recognizes? Why does this person think he must be there? 
   
2. Who is the second prisoner Winston knows? 
   
3. Orwell introduces two nameless prisoners: the chinless man and the skull faced man. 1.) What is wrong with the skull­faced man? 2.) Why do the guards beat the chinless man? 3.) What does the skull­faced man offer up to the guards to try and persuade them not to take him to Room 101?
4. Who is the third person that Winston recognises?
   

​

​

" Winson would be vaporized. O'Brien would be vaporized. Parsons, on the other hand, would never be vaporized." Part I chapter V

1. What happened to Parsons? Why is he there? 

2. Why does Orwell include the character of Parson’s in this chapter? What is the purpose? 

Power 

For the extract you have been given, identify, as a group the purpose of the extract and the authorial choices used to depict this purpose. 

Annotate for: 

Diction (word choice) 

stylistic and figurative language choices 

Sentence forms and dialogue 

Write one paragraph analysing the purpose and the methods used to convey that purpose. 

​

​

AWL

1984 and north korea each have approaches to maintaining their totalitarian society. This essay aims to provide a comprehensive analysis on the similarities and differences of each society. 

 North Korea and 1984 both have an authority figure that is worshipped as though it is a god, for north Korea, this is their first leader: Kim il sung while in 1984 it is the figure of big brother. In addition, they both use militarist strategies and punishments to get people into order. Both have an emphasis on military, with north Korea having daily parades and show-offs of their weaponry power while 1984 has a constant broadcast of their ongoing war. Both also have torturous punishment for those who break the rules, disincentivizing uprising. 

 However, north Korea and 1984 also have some differences. Most importantly, north Korea is a real place while 1984 is a fictional society. Furthermore, 1984's administration: ingsoc has control over the entire world while north Korea has control over a relatively small plane of land. Lastly, 1984's society has taken their control even further than north korea, actively developing a new way of language that restricts any non-state-approved language.