Feminist view
Chapter 6 (Perth) A feminist would view chapter 6 of 1984 negatively because in this chapter, Winston describes the experience he had with a prostitute three years ago. The female prostitute is one of the few female characters that appear since the beginning of the novel and the portrayal of women being prostitutes seem nasty and disgusting. We could also tell that this book was written long ago before the 21st century, because during the 21st century, women have more equality and rights than they did before. By comparing men as ‘masculine’ or as the people working and comparing women as a ‘prostitute’ clearly shows that men had an advantage and were more superior than women at that time. But as we all know, these ideas and concepts are just thoughts that are constructed by culture. In conclusion, throughout the chapter, women are shown as weak, powerless people who are under the control of men and their purpose is to follow given orders and to pleasure men. This can be seen from the role of Katherine, Winston’s wife, and the prostitute Winston met a while ago.
Chapter 7 (Little V) - upload soon
Chapter 7 (Little V) - upload soon
Psychoanalytic view
Chapter 6 (Little V)
In a psychoanalytic view, the main goal would be to investigate the cognitive processes that are being presented such as memory or behavior. Winston’s prediction that the Party only viewed sex as a process in producing new Party members can be viewed as a psychological stereotype or a situational factor of behavior. Winston’s depression and suppressed feeling towards females because how the Party thinks females are an excess duty and how they are merely tools of reproduction can be caused by either not knowingly agreeing to the common belief of the Party that pleasures should not be made from sexual acts or that he believes he should follow a certain belief simply because everybody else is. The most likely case of Winston’s feeling is a situational factor case, where he, individually, would not hate women in his own perspective or according to personality, but instead, it is more likely that surroundings and encountered context have made him believe differently. Another important factor is fright. Since the Party has negative views towards females, Winston feels that having sex without any other purpose than pleasure is rebellious and would possibly anger the Party. He has no hatred for sex but when he and his wife Katherine separated, he became desperate for a sexual affair, mentioning in his diary that even the prostitute that was old and ugly, he continued along with the sex nonetheless.
Chapter 7 (Perth)
This chapter narrates about how the Party manipulates the people by feeding them false information. The Party is brainwashing the people to believe in what they want them to. By doing so, the Party is able to control the people the way they want. In this chapter, the Party provides the people with false information to deceive them from reality. In my opinion, I feel that this chapter is a portrayal of a communist society or a dictatorship, where the ruler controls the information people have and twist information to suit the purpose of the ruler. It is a horrible concept to provide people with false knowledge because it would come to a shock when the people know the truth, but on the other hand, this is a very complicated and intriguing concept to think about.
Questions
1) Why did you initially choose the theory you did to break down your chapter(s)?
I chose to analyse Chapter 6 of 1984 in a feminist perspective because chapter 6 is one of the few chapters in this novel that has the appearance of a female, so I decided that it would be a good opportunity to analyze this is a female's point of view. Another reason was because I have tried analyzing text in different views and would like to try see things in another perspective. I, myself, is a male and would like to discover how a female would handle and see situations differently than men. This was why I chose to analyze in this view. For chapter 7, I analyzed it in a psychoanalytic perspective because my partner chose it for chapter 6.
2) How did viewing the chapter(s) through this scope (and the scope of your partner) change your interpretation of your reading?
I feel that analyzing the chapters 6 and 7 in different views give me a different perspective and a wider insight on the chapter. I understood the chapter with more depth and also in a different side. This helps develop my analyzing skills and gave me a need experience in interpretation of text and made me understand the text in different ways. Rather than just reading it normally, I also had to think more than I usually do.
In a psychoanalytic view, the main goal would be to investigate the cognitive processes that are being presented such as memory or behavior. Winston’s prediction that the Party only viewed sex as a process in producing new Party members can be viewed as a psychological stereotype or a situational factor of behavior. Winston’s depression and suppressed feeling towards females because how the Party thinks females are an excess duty and how they are merely tools of reproduction can be caused by either not knowingly agreeing to the common belief of the Party that pleasures should not be made from sexual acts or that he believes he should follow a certain belief simply because everybody else is. The most likely case of Winston’s feeling is a situational factor case, where he, individually, would not hate women in his own perspective or according to personality, but instead, it is more likely that surroundings and encountered context have made him believe differently. Another important factor is fright. Since the Party has negative views towards females, Winston feels that having sex without any other purpose than pleasure is rebellious and would possibly anger the Party. He has no hatred for sex but when he and his wife Katherine separated, he became desperate for a sexual affair, mentioning in his diary that even the prostitute that was old and ugly, he continued along with the sex nonetheless.
Chapter 7 (Perth)
This chapter narrates about how the Party manipulates the people by feeding them false information. The Party is brainwashing the people to believe in what they want them to. By doing so, the Party is able to control the people the way they want. In this chapter, the Party provides the people with false information to deceive them from reality. In my opinion, I feel that this chapter is a portrayal of a communist society or a dictatorship, where the ruler controls the information people have and twist information to suit the purpose of the ruler. It is a horrible concept to provide people with false knowledge because it would come to a shock when the people know the truth, but on the other hand, this is a very complicated and intriguing concept to think about.
Questions
1) Why did you initially choose the theory you did to break down your chapter(s)?
I chose to analyse Chapter 6 of 1984 in a feminist perspective because chapter 6 is one of the few chapters in this novel that has the appearance of a female, so I decided that it would be a good opportunity to analyze this is a female's point of view. Another reason was because I have tried analyzing text in different views and would like to try see things in another perspective. I, myself, is a male and would like to discover how a female would handle and see situations differently than men. This was why I chose to analyze in this view. For chapter 7, I analyzed it in a psychoanalytic perspective because my partner chose it for chapter 6.
2) How did viewing the chapter(s) through this scope (and the scope of your partner) change your interpretation of your reading?
I feel that analyzing the chapters 6 and 7 in different views give me a different perspective and a wider insight on the chapter. I understood the chapter with more depth and also in a different side. This helps develop my analyzing skills and gave me a need experience in interpretation of text and made me understand the text in different ways. Rather than just reading it normally, I also had to think more than I usually do.
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