Novels which are thematically distasteful as necessarily inferior

By James Cox, Student

Notes which answer this question with reference to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Exam Revision: 1984
Question: Are novels which are thematically distasteful necessarily inferior?
Answer: Negative, using 1984.
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Distasteful novels can be a warning to the people who read them.
Distasteful parts of 1984: torture, totalitarianism, no privacy, etc.
Warning against extreme English Socialism
-contemporary governmental practices projected into the future.
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-no individual
-no chance to overthrow the party
-no communication with people ion other areas, little communication even with others ion the same city.
-Newspeak eliminates the ability to spread ideas and rebellion.
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The Party:
-creates no martyrs
-removes dangerous individuals
-denies natural rights
-channels labor into avenues where nothing of use is produced
-gradually eliminates the ideas of both friends and spouses
marriage -> produce new line of party members
friends -> none, only fellow p[arty members
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Distasteful novels: share opinions, ideas and ideals in a way which stops the world of 1984 ever occurring.
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Quotes:
'There seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.'
'Furniture had always been bad and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark colored, nothing cheap and plentiful.'
'Patched up 19th century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.'
'The world today is a bare, hungry, dilapidated place.'
'Nobody cares what the proles say.'
'Proles and animals are free.'
'The two aims of the party are to conquer the globe and to extinguish independent thought forever.'
'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a picture of a boot stamping onto a human face - forever.'
'Who controls the past, controls the present, and who controls the present, controls the future.'
'if there is any hope, it lies in the proles.'

[Keywords: Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four]