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Article: Dissent, assent, and the body in Nineteen Eighty-Four.(Critical essay)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2007
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A series of bodies mark the progression from hope to despair in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell proffers several versions of an oppositional body capable of resisting dystopia: first, Winston's rebellious body that refuses to submit to the everyday discomforts of life, then Julia's naked body in lovemaking, and finally the powerful body of the proletarian mother singing at her household drudgery. But in Winston's emaciated body after torture, Orwell's final vision is of the body as inherently flawed, permeable, incapable of sustaining any enduring opposition to social control. Together, these bodies appear to comprise a persuasive anatomy of the powers and ...
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Article: George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four.(Book Review)
Utopian Studies;
January 1, 2005 ;
700+ words
...George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Plume, 2003. Centennial Edition. Foreword ... that readers of Utopian Studies are perfectly familiar with Nineteen Eighty-Four, I will focus on the rather illustrious essays which ...
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