Repression, Resistance, and Solidarity in Orwell’s Oceania and Communist Romania: A Situationist Perspective
Repression, Resistance, and Solidarity in Orwell’s Oceania and Communist Romania: A Situationist Perspective
Author(s): Adrian SolomonSubject(s): History, Philosophy, Literary Texts, Cultural history, Fiction, Civil Society, Governance, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: systemic and situational forces; non-violent resistance under communism; absence of solidarity; George Orwell;
Summary/Abstract: The powerful situational forces that crushed the resistance of the first generation under communism were no longer necessary against subsequent generations: they had activated self-protective needs that eventually led to conformity and weak forms of dissidence; such as “resistance through culture”. The absence of solidarity; one of the new situational forces; hampered dissent. Similar forces are at work in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; the world of Ingsoc-ruled Oceania and its heroes: Winston Smith; Julia; O’Brien; Big Brother
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXIII/2015
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 220-237
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
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