1) In the novel 1984 there is a sort of political dictatorship upon the society. Wiston Smith,who is a very intelligent man, undestands what is happening and he tries to change the system,but he is stopped by an politician,who tortures him during his imprisonment. Finally, Wiston submits to the Big Brother and he will say that 2+2=5
2)Usually it is the policy to be subordinated to the people , who has the right to elect politicians and approve or repeal laws and decrees .
In the novel 1984 takes place otherwise . Politics , the big brother , affects the lives of the people by making them accept any kind of thought and rule of life . That’s why the expression ‘ ‘ in January has the rains in April ‘ ‘ . It is not April , or politics , to have the rains of January, but it’s January , or the people , to have the rains of April, to have the Big Brother rules.
Some poets have spoken of the month of April , as Chaucer into Canterbury tales and Eliot into The burial of the dead .For the first,month of April has a positive symbolic meaning , it is the month of the regeneration of nature and soul .For the second April poet takes on a negative connotation , in fact it is the month in which the man awakens from winter sleep and rethink his state and to his being passive towards the society.
3-4)The lyrics are based on the novel of Orwell , in which a pair , made up of Winston and Julia , impelled by love decides to go against the policies and ideals , but in the end will be crushed , like any other form irrational and sentimental because it was the Big Brother to decide weddings and intimate moments between people .
This is because the sexual act was linked to procreation , then used for a biological purpose .
5)Winston is an employee of the Ministry of Truth , an organization in charge to rewrite the entire history , to better adapt to the ” truths ” disseminated by Big Brother . The task of Winston is therefore to rewrite the historical documents , the censoring any information is passed from the upper that does not reflect the line imposed by the regime .
6)According to my opinion the green line around the mind is a metaphor used to indicate a restriction of knowledge, of the rules, of free speech, free press, that at that time the big brother was performing on people.
7)the red tape can be the symbol of the border , beyond which you can discover the whole truth that the big brother keeps hidden from the people. A kind of circle which, if broken , free from oppression and mental reservation whoever is inside .
1) In the first four lines we can find a sort of a dialogue between two people. One wants in a sense to change the reality and the other wants adapt to life that is forced to live, because, in referent to 1984, we can find a period when everything was private,even the freedom of expression had to follow precise laws, because as in the “Big Brother” everythinh was checked.
“two & two makes up five”, symbol of the irreality, shows the emblem of the false dogmas in which the regime is forcing their subjects to believe.
All, often, we are afraid to say our, fear of being juded, of marking mistakes or not being appreciated. But today, although times have changed, people lack the courage to speak and even to think to express a simple thought in front of people.
2) April is a month that is treated in the works of many artists.
Eliot uses this month to indicate the negative aspect of reality. Infact for him the winter is the season that protects people.
Chaucer uses it to indicate a month of the degeneration.
But in the “2+2=5″ in referent to the novel of Orwell, for me, is an example to demonstrate the resignation of the people to the totalitarian regime.
1-2) The lines of the lyrics are refered to the novel because in it we have the presence of two characters, Winston Smith and Julia, who fall in love and because of the regime did not want the coupling between two people if not for the purpose of procreation, they are hiding in a place out of sight, but soon are discovered and tortured psychologically and physically, is put to the test their love, then we see that isn’t so great and true as it seems.
1-2-3) The lines are refered to the fact that the system imposes on false dogmas subjects by making them believe they are true, continually influencing their mind (green belts wrapped around our minds), depriving them of their freedom of expression and thought and hiding the true reality behind a ” veil “(red tape). in reference to the veil, we can make a connection, in my opinion, with the philosopher Schopenhauer that the “veil of Maya” that he is in his philosophy, is something that is in front of the eyes, obscuring the view, not allowing to see beyond, to grasp the reality, which can be accessed by removing the veil.
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1)”Are you such a dreamer to put the world to rights?” these lines refer to all those people who delude themselves thinking they can change things .They delude themselves because they don’t take into account an extremely important fact: those who have the power always win,every effort is almost always a failure,hope in change is pure illusion. So in this sense the listener is a dreamer. If we consider the novel 1984 we can say that Winston Smith,defined by O’Brian as the last man, is “the dreamer” ,who paid with his life the acts of rebellion against the Party. the theme dealt by radiohead is very important. Nay , we can say that it regards the history of mankind from the beginning.However,today more than ever,the control exercised on our mind is really strong. The contemporary society uses “refined means”: social networks,television and so on. So we are puppets in their hand,and now I can no longer find hope in a different world. In my experiece I was shoked by the fact that many of my contemporaries are not aware of the futility of certain things that take us away from the real problems. Sometimes they are not even capable of thinking by themselves(except someone),they constantely seeking the support of others regarding a decision or about what to think. this is absurd and it is the result of the society we are living in. I think that things can not change because “the dreamers” are few, or because they have not the courage to come forward. But who are the dreamers? They are those who, paradoxically, have understood the reality for what it is. But the dreamer is also isolated because of external forces: the others who are conformated. the human beings hate to be the “lone voice” because it is possible that they will be rejected by the society . So the dreamers have 2 possibilities: suppress their thoughts and conform with society or break with it anh shouting in a desert her/his despair without being heard by anyone. So in a certain sense the solution requires courage , but we don’t have it. We suffer of a sort of interior and external paralysis.
The mental constriction is also due to a very old question: the religion. Probably it is only a human need because we feel the nedd to gave an explanation for our existence (as feuerbach saied) or because we had to find conmfort from the society that operates inequalities(marx’s thought).Religion tells us how to act,leaving little importance to the free will. I always wondered why there were so many religions and why each religion tries to prevail over the others even by the use of violence. So from this point of view,religion is often contradictory because it gave great importance to the love and than operates massive massacre.
Let’s to take into account the catholic church. It i sa based on particular dogmas but over the years these dogmas have changed and adapted to the contemporary society and personally I hate this fact because it confuses me and make me think that it is only a way to obtain consensus, and so that is is just another mean of the power. the church also professes things that it doesn’t respect. I sum up by saying that in the course of history ,fot the christianity,are valid the following equations: love=massacres , poverty= the luxury of the vatican , chastity =pedophilia , do not steal = scandals involving cardinals who have built their wealth on funds for the needy. Maybe we should distinguish between what men do and what the goog lord tells usto do? I have no idea, I an confused and worn out dubts. However things in favor of the thesis of religion as mean of control are more powerful. Our lives have a path already mapped. We are not free, and the only liberty we have is the one to think and ,as winston says, to affirm that “ 2+2=4”. Olso Blake talks about the liberty; he used the metaphore “mind forg’d menacles” and he want to say that a mind forged in a costriction is not free and incapable to image,to think;, so he underline the lack of liberty in a london afflicted by the industralisation.
“I’ll stay home forever where two & two always makes up five”. These lines express the idea that the ignorance is the best way to protect ouselves from the power.But as Orwell says “ignorance is strength”, strength for the party that in this way is able to control the mind easly. we can say that we are ignorant for 2 reasons : we don’t know all that we should to know , but only what “the big of the world” want us to know; and sometimes we prefer to bypass things,events,problems.
2)It is another reference to Orwell. We know that he starts his novel with the words : “ it was a bright cold day in april “. April is ever described as a month of rebirth and regeneration but there we find a cold atmosphere. Indeed, we cannot have regeneration ,life in a society like the one descrived by orwell where people are machines ,they are alienated and they are losing their feelings; so this month aquires a negative connotation. Also T.S.Eliot talks about april in a negative way. He starts the burial of the dead with the lines : “april is the cruellest month,breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixting memory and desire,stirring dull roots with spring rain.”; so april is a negative month because it regenerates memoried and desire in a land that is dead just like the people that are living in it. After he tolks about winter in a positive way because it is the season af the steril present ,so Eliot subverted the order of natural things. Both eliot and Orwell present april in opposition to Chaucher’s consideration concerning this month.
“resistance”
1-2)the lines of the lyrics refer to the love story treated in the novel between Winston and Julia. In a world in which love,freedom,and truth are opressed by hate,fear and lies also an intense look can be interpreted as a threat. Indeed ,initially Winston is afraid julia is a member of the thought police and he images to rape an kill her. Actually her intentions are of a quite dfferent nature: acting out a fall , she sent him a piece of paper with the words:” i love you “. Both are against the party and they hate the big brother. This is the beginning of their love affair; but this choise is so dangerous for their lives, and they are aware of it. They meet for the first time in a sort of wood because here they are not controlled by the telescreen and they make love together. Since they have to change the meeting place in order to avoid arousing suspicions, winston rents a room in the antique shop of mr. Charrington. There they can talk freely, doing what thet eant to do , they can live .They believe they are in a secret safe place, but they are in error. Indeed a day , when julia and winstin are looking out the windonw they remain petrified(as the reader ) by hearing the sound of the metallic voice from the telescreen hidden behind a painting. many police officers enter the room and arrest them and they discover that O’Brian is an enemy (he meets them same time ago and gave the book of Goldstain).Both know what expect to them: torture and death. Now every hope has failed. Julia and winston are tortured in the ministry of love. In the book we can read only the tortures of the poor Winston. He is very stron but not enough to overcome his biggest fear: rats. When winston please O’Brian to do this torture to julia, he knows that Winston has completely folded to rha party. After room 101 Winston no longer loves julia, and she no longer loves him . By reading about their meeting after a period I felt sad and disappointed; I didn’t want an end like this one….but the greatest impact is given by the last sentence of the book : now Winston loves the big brother….it’s heartbreaking.
So now we can understand the message that orwell want to convay: in a totalitarian society every act outside the rules will be punished and there is no way to escape from this reality. In this regard I would like to conclude with the words of a song very dear to me: Is this the real life ? is this just fantasy ? caught in a landslide no escape from reality .( queen-bohemian rhapsody)
“uprising”
1)these verses clearly explain the intentions of the government: to keep our minds in the arms of Morpheus. I believe that the Muse want to talk about a sort of brainwashing that the system operates. The word “truth” assumes a very important meaning. we read: “they hope we will never see the truth around”. This expresses the fact that the strength of the system is based on ignorance (Orwell says: the ignorance is strength). they try to keep us away from the true reality hidden behind appearances. They hope that people see the reality not as it is but for what they want to appear; we all live in a world where the truth and false are mixed, false may be true and the true may be false. We find this situation also in the novel 1984 where also the history facts undergoes many changes, and what was true until the day before,became false and so on.
However, according to the muse, there is the possibility of a ransom by this situation and we understand it well in the following verses: they will not force us,they will stop degrading us,they will not control us, we will be victorious. however i’m not agree,the opposition is just a dream. Although we try to oppose ,their will always win. Also in this case i would conclude by taking up a senstence from the book “hedgehog’s elegance” (Muriel Burbery) that I like very much: La gente crede di inseguire le stelle e finisce come un pesce rosso nella boccia.
2)”green belts wrapped around our minds” refer to the mental constriction,the brain whashinng operated by the system. we find this theme in the novel 1984 where people suffer of a strong pshycological control.taking into account the contemporary society it is a reference to all the religious and social dogmas that we had to respect.
this is one of the reasons why the system wins: people are too tied to these external impositions and are not able to rise up and change things. People aware of what they are few. we can say that one of the keywords to read the contemporary society is: paralysis. This issue is also trated by joyce in his work ” the dubliners”.
3)according to my opinion ,the “red tape” is the set of offices and official of public administration, so the bureaucracy,the entire system that tries to hide the truth. In 1984 the “red tape” are :the ministry of truth,ministry of love,ministry of love and ministry of peace.
1) 1984 is the title of the most important novel of George Orwell wrote in 1948. During the period of the Cold War was considered one of the most significant novels because the subject matter was brought back to a criticism of the Soviet regime. As the title of the song ” 2 + 2 = 5 ” in 1984 is a perfect form of political and social dictatorship in which the upper ideology can shape at will the minds of the people so much to say that the laws of nature do not exist, or rather, exist as the party wants them to be and it is therefore assumed control of the mind from every point of view, in fact, the two verses “I will stay forever home / Where two and two always makes five”, are connected the idea of ignorance that turns our brain to a safe house where two plus two always makes five. If we are dominated by ignorance, it can easily be controlled by someone else, such as Big Brother. The first two lines, “You’re such a dreamer / by wanting to put in place the world?”, Is a direct question to the listener, where it seems that we are trying to change the world, even if, in the end, all efforts are useless . For this we are only dreamers
2) April spring month par excellence is associated in the popular imagination with the beauty and love. For Eliot instead there is a reversal: April is the month when the buds, flowers and so they come out after the cold winter, but their “rise up” is full of pain and uncertainty.Absolutely unconventional poet says that you should prefer the winter, because the season when everything remains as it is, “asleep” .The phrase ” in January was rainy in April ” may refer to this society as conceived by Orwell nightmare where there is no debate, because it is assumed that the Party has never torto.Si then admits to manipulate reality, with It lies in the constant position of advantage over the truth, reflecting the yield from Deglio individuals against the dictatorial regime.
1-2)The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a subordinate member of the party, apparently docile, but in fact really can not stand the pressure of the party. Beside him act two other characters: Julia, who is in love with Winston, and O’Brien, a senior official that the protagonist believes amico.Winston and Julia become lovers and decide to secretly cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “Brotherhood “. But once confidatisi with O’Brien discover that he is a member of the thought police, who once discovered the plan of the two capture them and torture them in the room 101, at first the love between the two seems to resist and be stronger to all kinds of torture but when O’Brien submit them to their worst nightmares their love falters and collapses proving not so strong anymore
1) The thirty-nine Winston Smith is an employee of the Party Outside working at the offices of the Ministry of Truth, instructed to “correct” the books and the already published newspaper articles, that is, change them so as to make verifiable and truthful predictions made by the External Party . He also deals with change the written history, thus contributing to the fame of the infallibility of the Party itself, apply the damnatio memoriae towards dissidents “never existed” and so on. Apparently it is a malleable type, but Winston actually can not stand the regime conditionings and fails to adapt its mind to doublethink, so much so that it begins to write on a diary her feelings of discontent against the regime.
2)The green line around the mind can be a clear reference to one of the main party pacts: “Ignorance is ” force according to which the greater the knowledge of an individual, the more it is prone to doubts and contradictions of thought. If knowledge is poor every individual will be ” forced ” to act according to the dictates of the Party
3) the red tape can be seen as a limit to which every individual is Enlarged to dominate as the ” big brother ” it imposes a kind of gratitude from the people because thanks to the Party can riternersi fully protected from those who are the wars that are involving that period in fact using the doublethink, the Party is able not only to bomb his own people saying that it’s an enemy attack; But also the same Party members are indoctrinated to believe that they are the enemies to drop bombs ..
1)The first four lines have a really strong meaning.We can understand that a dialogue is taking place between two people of completely different thoughts. The person who is “talking” is the stereotype of person who has no personality, it is compliant to the mass.This person is amazed to speak with a person of the opposite side,so a person detached from the mass.This kind of people are called “dreamers” and they compose the minority of the population. In this case the word “dreamer” is a paradox because the dreamer is the only one who has understand the reality as it really is,so the dreamer is a rebel against the society.The rebels bother to society because they are the only people with a bit of intelligence that would change society.I say “would” and not “want” because it is impossible for them change the society.They are destroyed by the society as soon as they manifest their thoughts so they pay with their lives the fact that they are unticonventional peole. For this reason common people prefer to be ignorant,under the control of the Party in order to not die. If we think about 1984 we immediately understand that the dreamer is Winston Smith that was tortured and killed by O’Brien for his conspiratorial mindset,so it is easier to stay home with your arms folded doing nothing and be completely subjected to the Party instead to try to make justice prevail. 2)”January has April’s showers” is a reference to Orwell and T.S Eliot.According to them April has a negative connotation and it is in contrast with the traditional conception of April. In fact Chaucer’s conception of April is really positve because April is the month of the regeneration of the soul that was possible thanks to the political contest that was better than the modern one. In Orwell and Eliot April acquire negative connotation because it is impossible to have a regeneration of the soul,people are completely alienated ,they have no more feelings so there is a kill of the soul instead of a regeneration.
Muse Resistence.
The lines of Resistence’s lyrics refers to the two lovers of 1984: Winston Smith and Julia,whose name is never revealed. This is the moment when they rent an house in a working class district.They made this decision because we know that both of them were against the Party so in order to express their feelings and politc side,they needed of a safe place in which they can do this without be checked by the party. This is impossible because the Party has hidden a lot of telescreens everywhere in order to control the life of everyone. In fact there was also a telescreen hidden behind a painting in their room. One day,suddenly many officers of the thought police entered in their room and arrested them. I think that this police is called “Thought police” because they are able to see inside people’s mind and there is no way to escape from their control. Winston and Julia loved each other greatly and they promise that they will never changed their mind and their love will never stop burning…but it was not so. At the beginning,when Winston was tortured by O’Brien,Winston was able to resist but when O’Brien decided to bring him in the room 101 (this room was famous beacuse here are made the worst torture that a person can imagine) he was tortured with the worst Winston’s nightmare: rats. Winston didn’t resist to this torture and he decided to sacrifice Julia instead of him. This event represents the victory of the Party and the defeat of the “dreamer”.In this way Orwell makes us understand that there is not solution to this radical form of totalitarianism and that is better to be passive people completely subjugated to the Party.
Muse Uprising.
Also this song is strictly linked to Orwell’s 1984. “We will never see the truth around”…this is a really strong sentence that makes us understand that the greatest part of people is ignorant,they don’t have any moral feeling and they don’t care how the world is going on. So it is impossible to see the truth in a world composed by people that are empty inside. According to the Muse,there is the possibility to overcome the limits made by this empty people and so to reach the truth; we can see this from the refrain and also from the sentence in bracket that is located at the end of some stanzas which encourages us to get a move on. I disagree with them because i think that is only a dream that is impossible to realize.
“Green belts wrapped around our minds”..this sentence symbolizes how the system blocks people’s thoughts. This theme is really strong in 1984 because we can find a lot of “belts” that the Party used to control people’s mind.We can take into account the new dictionary that people are forced to use, this is a dictionary with few words so people cannot express their thoughts.
“And endless red tape to keep the truth confined” I think that the red tape is,how it is expressed in the sentence, the means through the Party has to keep the truth hidden.In 1984 this task is entrusted to the Thought Police,the ministry of truth,the ministry of love and ministry of peace.
I really enjoy doing this project because i love Muse and also the thematic treated by this topic…Have a nice day Prof!
1 . In the song we can find a dialogue between two people. This is linked to the novel of orwell about the idea that people didn’t explain their ideas and they ere subordinated to the society. For example winston knew that 2+2=4 , but in order to live he said that 2+2=5
2. April is considered the month of rigeneration of the nature linked to the regeneration of the soul .In orwell the idea that”in January has the rains in April ‘, becouse are people that are controlled by the state ( the big brother)
3.4.the lines of the song are linked to the love between julia and winston. This kind of love is secret but isn’t very strong , in fact when The big brother didn’t want this relation, it fall.
5.6.7. The Lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984, a society in wich the thought of people are controlled by the governament. For this reason everyone did’t express his idea , this theme is present Also in the modern society, people in fact are controlled by the mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the sociaty are rappresented by the metaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds. While the red tapes is the symbol of the limits of the truth
1) There is no place for dreamers in the Party.Big Brother controls everything and only one insignificant dream or a thought,against the Party,could lead to death.If you still believe that 2+2=4 you’re wrong,2+2=5,this is the only truth,because big brother said this and nothing can change.
2)Chaucer in “The Canterbury Tales” describes the rains in April as a sign of rebirth,in contrast to Elliot that saw April like the cruellest month and also he belived that winter is better because in this period everything remains as it is,in a kind of sleep.
1-2)These verses can be traced to the love between Smith and Julia,infact they meet in total secrecy and each time with the fear of getting caught from the Big Brother and this because the Party wanted to eliminate completely all emotions,especially love.
1)This happens from very long time,all kings,all governments,they have always done all and more to hide the truth,because if people knew that there is another way to handle the world,a better way,it would be the end for them and their power.In “1984” infact there is no possibility to know the real truth,becouse every book,papers or link with the past is canceled.
2)Green as the color of money.The belts wrapped around our minds refer to the closed-mindedness.Expecially in “1984”,the Party controls everything and all thoughts.
3)The expression “red tape” refers to a series of laws that seem useless,but that governament introduces to get something.This happens very often in the superstate of Oceania,becouse the Party introduces a lot of useless reform as the decrease of the chocolate.
1) George Orwell used for the first time the statement that ” two and two are five” in his famos work 1984.where The power is in the hands of a single party , the Party simply said.owned by the big brother.His eyes are the screens , televisions equipped with camera , installed by law in each house of the Ingsoc members and that of the Outer Party members can not turn off , but they can at least attenuate the volume . These TV – cameras , everywhere , in addition to spreading propaganda 24 hours a 24 , spy life of any member of Ingsoc , nullifying all possible forms of privacy : in this way , the government can easily observe any form of behavior, even unconscious , it reveals that an individual has thoughts against the Party orthodoxy . Such observation mechanism is carried on continuously , and each Party member.in the first four lines of the song ,it is expressed the single thoughts of the modern society.(refers to 1984) .in which , the questioner is afraid to break the chains with the society and the government,he is a slaves of moral ,religious,and political life.he hasn’t the courage to rebel,
because the society of today , like the one described Orwell (in 1984) , is dominated by the single thought,that does nothing but indicate how we must adapt to society . Today in fact, what feeds the powers of the single thought are social networks , advertisements, tv ettc.
This is why the dreamer , since there is no hope to change the world , he rifuges at home , where he can build a fictional world , where no one can counter his opinion.
2)in the song, like in the orweel and in the eliot’s poet, April has a negative connotation.
It does not represent the month of purification of the soul.
there is this pessimistic view because the individual is forced to live in a society where everyone thinks like the others . so a regeneration is impossible.
Resistance
1) and 2)
theri is a clear reference to two lovers of the work of Orwell.The thirty-nine Winston Smith is an employee of the Outer Party.he resents the regime conditionings and unable to adjust their minds to doublethink , so much so that it begins to write on a diary her feelings of discontent against the regime ..His Life changes when one day he meets julia.Winston falls in love with Julia , despite the regime forbid sexual relationships that have no purpose other than procreation . To avoid detection during their amorous encounters , the two lovers , with the help of Mr. Charrington , find shelter in a room located in the quarters to Prolet , or the area of the city less guarded because it is inhabited by the working class illiterate .subsequently. Winston and Julia are subjected to a program of physical torture.brainwashed will change his mind,and it will adapt to the regime thought.
uprising
1)”truth” in the first three lines of the song has a strong meaning.who govern us use the power of information .the which makes tap into multiple truths and holds the foreign person from it.the author of the song emphasizes that keep us uninformed by everything.and he invites us to wake up and to rebel.
2)”the green belts wrapped around our minds” it’s refers to the media of government control.in fact, today we are being spied .Thank to the power of Information there is not more privacy like in the society described by Orwell
3)”The red tape” is the absolute truth .the truth that is hidden. where the common person can not access to it. we can not know it . because it goes beyond appearances.
This concept can also be connected to immanuel kant . with its distinction between phenomenon and noumenon.
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These four first lines represent in a very perfect way the message expressed by the Party in the novel 1984, in fact these lines can be linked to the words of O’Brien in the interrogation to W.Smith.
The dreamer is Smith himself, who wanted to change the world built by the Party. Interesting is the sentence “to and two always makes up five” clearly taken by the novel where O’Brian imposes this thought to W.Smith.This represents the forgery of reality caused by the party.
Jenuary and April are two months that despite the different interpretations given by the variour artists they have always represented two oppostes.In Chaucer April represents the best month, the one of regeneration of the nature and of the soul and so the month in which people started their pilgrimage in order to find their faith.
In Eliot April has a different meaning; it is the crullest month because it was the month of the resurface of the memories of the past.On the order side Jenuary for Eliot represents the month of the letargy in which the thoughts are covered by the snow and for this reason it is considered by the authour the best period of the year.
In the novel 1984 of Orwell ,differently from the other writers, Orwell doesn’t make this distinction between these two months, as if the seasons are united among them.April is no more the month of regeneration,Jenuary is no more the month that covers eveything but they arte the month of the monotony represented by the shower. This image is the representation of the will of the Party that wants to delete from the mind of people the past and the present in order to deny their love in favour of the growth of the Party.
Resistance
These lines are connected to the episode in which Smith and Julia were discovered by the policy of the Party.
Julia and Smith represent the characters of the resistance at the Party; in fact the text says” love is our resistance” because the love professed by them is passionate in opposition to the idea of love created by the Party according to it love has to be only procreation without any kind of felling and pleasure. Instead love between Smith and Julia is body and soul Union caused also by their opposition to the Party. They found a secret room where they could enjoy their freely passion. This Freedom was denied them by the Party that controlled and Saw everything.
Uprising
In the novel 1984 doesn’t exist the truth because it doesn’t exist the reality.
The Party created a own reality that made people belive to be Always in poverty and sofference conditions.
“We will never see the truth around”.People had not to know the reality because this doesn’t exist.
The belts represent the mental constription given by the Party that imposes its ideas as belts that resound in the head of people.This is a way in order to block the thoughts of people.
The Party adopted some misures like a new dictionary with few words imposed to people in order to control their minds.
We can say that people are in a certain sense alienated like the workers of Eliot that didn’t belive in anything.
The Red tape represents the Administrative bureaucratic figure of the Party.They controlled the behaviours, the actions and the thoughts of people. These administrations are:The ministery of Peace, Ministery of Love and Ministery of truth. These kind of administrations let The Government(The Big Brother) to impose its dictature.
The Government expressed by Orwell in this novel represents a totalitarian regime constituted by the Leadership of one only man (The dictature) linked to one only Party.
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Orwell’s 1984 masterpiece is set in a future where the world is ruled by three totalitarian powers .The protagonist Wiston is committed to edit the newspaper articles in favor of the party but he is unable to have a similar thought to the party and for that he writes a diary where he expresses his negative feelings toward the party. Winston and Julia had different ideas from those of the party and believed that they could change things. The regime, however, was so strong as to have imposed its ideology at all so if the scheme says that 2 + 2 = 5 then the people will say that 2 + 2 = 5. The man is considered a dreamer because even if he tries to change things, will fail, however, because the party will make you brainwashed.
The expression ‘January has April’s showers “we can connect with two other authors TS Elliot and Chaucer. As Elliot also Orwell sees April in a negative way for Elliot fact it was a sterility month; unlike Chaucer who considered Aprle like a month of rebirth.
The text of the Muse refers to the time when Winston and Julia believe they are finally alone away from big brother but they were wrong and they are arrested and taken to a prison in the ‘Minister of love’, where they are tortured and made to join the party thinking .
The lovers of the text are Winston and Julia who shared negative ideas on the party. Wiston falls in love with Julia, despite the regime because the regime did not want to accept reports only for procreation and that’s why the two lovers meet in the less supervised areas of the city but are discovered and tortured. Wiston initially did not betrays Julia, but when it is brought into the room 101 where he is tortured with rats, which are his nightmare, he in fear betrays Julia.
The party seeking to mold under its control the population and therefore hides the truth. The most ‘daring citizens’ who try to rebel against the thought of the party are still captured and taken to centers where they will change their way of thinking even if their is truth will always adhere to the party thought.
This expression symbolizes the oppression that creates the party on the minds of the people; as well as another ‘red tape’ symbol symbolizes the way in which the party hides the truth so as to adhere to everybody on party.
1) 1984 is a novel written by Orwell and he criticizes the totalitarian regimes. in the first four lines, the artist has revealed a kind of political dictatorship on society. we can say that every human being has lost its freedom to think, to act in fact these people are controlled by parties that impose their ideals such as 2 + 2 = 5, people are subjected to the system. 2) In the expression ‘ ‘ in January has the rains in April ‘ ‘ we have a reference to the other authors that we have studied. For Chaucer,April is ever described as a month of rebirth and regeneration but there we find a cold atmosphere. Indeed, we cannot have regeneration ,life in a society like the one descrived by orwell where people are machines ,they are alienated and they are losing their feelings; so this month aquires a negative connotation. Also T.S.Eliot talks about april in a negative way. He starts the burial of the dead with the lines : “april is the cruellest month,breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixting memory and desire,stirring dull roots with spring rain.”; so april is a negative month because it regenerates memoried and desire in a land that is dead just like the people that are living in it. After he tolks about winter in a positive way because it is the season af the steril present ,so Eliot subverted the order of natural things. Both eliot and Orwell present april in opposition to Chaucher’s consideration concerning this month. 3-4) some lines of this song make reference to Orwell’s novel because there are two characters Winston and Julia, they love each other very much but their love contrasts politics and ideals of the party but in the end will be crushed . The Big Brother decides the marriage and intimate moment between people. The purpose of sex is the procreation and not pleasure. 5) Winston is a member of the Ministry of Truth , it is an organisation in charge to rewrite the entire history , to better adapt to the ” truths ” disseminated by Big Brother . The task of Winston is to rewrite the documents. 6) according to my opinion the phrase :”green belts wrapped around our minds” symbolizes how the system blocks people’s thoughts. the people aren’t free , they must thought like the party thought, they have lost free speech, free press. 7) The “red tape” can be the symbol of the border , beyond which you can discover the whole truth that the big brother keeps hidden from the people. the bureaucracy tries to hide the truth. In 1984 the “red tape” are :the ministry of truth,ministry of love,ministry of love and ministry of peace.
1) In the novel 1984 there is a sort of political dictatorship upon the society. Wiston Smith,who is a very intelligent man, undestands what is happening and he tries to change the system,but he is stopped by an politician,who tortures him during his imprisonment. Finally, Wiston submits to the Big Brother and he will say that 2+2=5
2) April spring month par excellence is associated in the popular imagination with the beauty and love. For Eliot instead there is a reversal: April is the month when the buds, flowers and so they come out after the cold winter, but their “rise up” is full of pain and uncertainty.Absolutely unconventional poet says that you should prefer the winter, because the season when everything remains as it is, “asleep” .The phrase ” in January was rainy in April ” may refer to this society as conceived by Orwell nightmare where there is no debate, because it is assumed that the Party has never torto.Si then admits to manipulate reality, with It lies in the constant position of advantage over the truth, reflecting the yield from Deglio individuals against the dictatorial regime.
1-2)The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a subordinate member of the party, apparently docile, but in fact really can not stand the pressure of the party. Beside him act two other characters: Julia, who is in love with Winston, and O’Brien, a senior official that the protagonist believes amico.Winston and Julia become lovers and decide to secretly cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “Brotherhood “. But once confidatisi with O’Brien discover that he is a member of the thought police, who once discovered the plan of the two capture them and torture them in the room 101, at first the love between the two seems to resist and be stronger to all kinds of torture but when O’Brien submit them to their worst nightmares their love falters and collapses proving not so strong anymore.
1-2-3)The Lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984, a society in wich the thought of people are controlled by the governament. For this reason everyone did’t express his idea , this theme is present Also in the modern society, people in fact are controlled by the mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the sociaty are rappresented by the metaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds. While the red tapes is the symbol of the limits of the truth
– In the first four lines the author asks if we consider ourselves dreamers. Referring to Orwell’s 1984 as though the big brother to ask us if we are dreamers, if we believe to be able to straighten the world, which only he can keep it under control. Someone knowing the end of the novel would say that it would be easier to stay at home under its control represented by “2 + 2 = 5”.
– April always considered as the month of the regeneration of the soul, both in Orwell that Eliot acquires a negative connotation. With Orwell April it will never come, in the sense that people completely alienated will ever regenerate their soul.
– There is definitely a connection with the plot, precisely, we could sell the story when they were discovered and captured by members of the party, when the two lovers were separated.
– The speaker is probably Julia, woman seeking certainty and security in his love for Winston, to be able to survive what will happen.
– Indeed, a rather complex notion, truth is synonymous with freedom, to understand something that is prevented from knowing, so be free. The big brother of the dictatorship is the “protection” that only he can provide. But this “protection” has a high price, have control of the minds, immense power. There is talk of a much more complex dictatorship of the totalitarian regimes of the time, something more like the situation today. About what Orwell was a big, able to predict the situation we have reached.
– This means the control of our minds, using any means available as posters and reduction of the dictionary, to the point of being ourselves to take everything, believing to have freedom of choice.
The red ribbon represents the truth, hidden truth, all you do not want us to know because then could represent an obstacle to the advancement of their program of conquest of the minds, in fact, the Orwell novel describes in great detail what can happen to those who opposes the party.
1. the lyrics are very strongly linked to Orwell’s works. As many have said, 2+2=5 refers to “1984” in which the unorthodox main character believes that the government is not perfect and remembers its lies etc. he believes, metaphorically, that 2+2=4 in a world in which everyone submits to the government and accepts that 2+2=5. Also, in the music video, a cartoon depicts pigs abusing cows, acting as humans and teaching the cows that 2+2=5. This, is a reference to Orwell’s “Animal farm”, in which animals revolt against their human oppressors, and form an equal society, which turns sour in a totalitarian leadership which resembles that of the humans. Orwell’s works are critical of totalitarian leaderships and I believe this songs is agreeing with this.
2.”January has april’s showers”is trying to show how much it lacks logic.Different poets talks about the month of april just like Chaucer in Canterbury Tales or Thomas Eliot in The burial of the dead.For Eliot the cruellest month is April because spring with its rebirth of nature, leaves emerge in men of wasteland the new -old impulses, expectations, desires and hopes, that the poor and – or empty life that they lead will inevitably fall, as an illusion of short duration, and that at least the winter had the merit of keeping dormant in his lethargic atarassia. For Chaucer April is the sweet showers fall that pierce March’s drought to the root and all and bathed every vein in liquor that has power to generate therein and sire the flower.
INSIDE THE LYRICS ”RESISTANCE”
1-2 The Resistance is entirely inspired by the novel by George Orwell in 1984 and 1948, in addition to social and political issues.The Resistance follows the romance between the two protagonists Winston and Julia.Winston and Julia materialize their rebellion to Big Brother in an effort to recover and keep alive two of the features that make this a human being: the memory and love.In particular, the protagonist, whose work at the Ministry of Truth is to delete and modify any document referred to the past that would question the words of Big Brother, through intellectual speculation, seeks to recover the memory of things past.
Julia, however, used in pornosez section of Amena department directs its rebellion will toward sexual passion, free, “free”, the pursuit of pleasure and not, as required by the Big Brother, exclusively procreative purposes.
INSIDE ”UPRISING”
1.the protagonist, whose work at the Ministry of Truth is to delete and modify any document referred to the past that would question the words of Big Brother, through intellectual speculation, seeks to recover the memory of things past. from these statements we can say that there is not a real truth.
2.According to my opinion ”Green belts wrapped around our mind”wants to represent how the system blocks people’s thought, the restriction of knowledge, of the rules.
3.Red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making. It is usually applied to governments corporation and other large.In 1984 represent the Party where they have the control of the behaviours, the actions of people. In1984 the red tape were: ministery of Peace, Ministery of Love and Ministery of truth.
1)In the first lines we can consider Orwell’s 1984. We know that in this novel we have total control over the lives of citizens by the called party big brother, this tries to accustom the citizens to obey without thinking. In this context, dreams and thoughts are canceled because they controlled, these are replaced with false truths and forcefully imposed as “2 + 2 = 5”.
2)April, for Chausar, is considered moth of regeneration for the soul, linked to the spring, to the nature’s ribirth and so it has positive connotations.
On the contrary, for Eliot and Orwell this month don’t have previous features; for Eliot, April and the spring returns to mind old memories; for Orwell, in his book 1984, how to sing radiohead “January has April’s showers” in that it is the big brother and the state to impose the rules to society, and in this case in April does not have the positive connotations of beauty and spring, but, on the contrary, cold and winter in January. Big brother laid his own rules, and did believe the things people opposed and absurd as 2 + 2 = 5, according to the title of the song.
-Resistance
1-2)we are in the near future: the year 1984. The company is managed by a single party led by big brother, is he who commands and everywhere in the city are hung big propaganda posters depicting Big Brother, with the caption “Big Brother is watching you.” in this context we have two Julia and Winston Smith characters who, despite the party just wants relations for procreation, they fall in love. Big Brother, with O’Brien, will submit the two leads to physical and psychological torture in which neither of them will know if he can keep the secret or not.The text of the Muse refers precisely to this: try to resist, to go beyond the party, the big brother, to maintain their love safe, or not?
-Uprising
1-2-3) The party keep hidden the truth as manage all media and information networks, so they tell us only what is best for them to let us know, to indoctrinate and dominate us; with “With all the green belts wrapped around our minds” they probably refers to the belts that carry the Masons at their meetings. Belt that imprisoned the mind. The big brother have infiltrated in all the right political party and left and in this way with the elections we only give the illusion of choice, because you votes on the right or on the left are always voting for them. It’s like choosing something between apple juice and apple juice. Whatever you choose, you choose them, you choose the Big Brother. The “red tape” remembers society’s limits, the tape after which there is an absolute truth that can be accessed only by the party.
”2+2=5”
1)The lines express the people’s idea according the totalitarianism that is the government’s form shown in Orwell’s novel , they have to believe that the world where they live is the best and the safest one.
2)It states the people’s alienation make them blind and unable to see the differences present in the world like the difference between April , that was considered by Chaucer a month of rebirth of nature and soul , and January , that has a positive connotation for Eliot because is in winter and this is considered the best season because the snow covered the past ‘memories .
”Resistance”
Because it tell of secret love story like the one presents in 1984 between Wiston and Julia that are forced to hide their relationship because the Big Brother controls the people’s privacy and allows the relationship between man and woman only to procreate.
”Uprising”
1)Those lines are a clear reference to the fact that all the dictatorship to have the favor of people hide the truth and through the media make them look good and close to the people , like the Big Brother who publicize a continues war against the other countries make form government to protect the civilians.
2)The entire life of people is controlled by the Big Brother , also their thoughts and their feelings like the two minutes hate where the people can express their hatred against the party’s enemies.
3)The ”endless red tape” is a metaphor of the large numbers of law applied by the Big Brother to rule the people life in every particular like the one that reduce the words allow to make more difficult express an own opinion for the people.
1.1984 is a novel written by George Orwell, in the last part of novel, Winston smith that is a sort of ‘rebel’, says that 2+2=5 despite he know that isn’t true.
2.In the novel we can find the period ‘ it was a bright cold day in april ‘, that we find also in the song. We can associate the theme of months with T.S Eliot and Chaucer. Chaucer beacuse associate april with the regeneration of soul, Eliot , instead uses this month to indicate the negative aspect of reality.
1-2. It’s possible associate the novel with song. Infact the song telling of a couple: Winston and Julia that but The Big Brother didn’t accept love if not for the procreation and than only for sex. They are discovered and tortured physically and psychologically.
1. In the novel, Winsotn is a member of Ministry of truth, an istitution create for rewrite the history and Winston rewrite the historical documents to adapt the truth of BB.
2.I think that it’s refer to money. Money are green and Cristopher McCandless in ‘Into the wild’ said that money make people cutious. Money influenced our lifes, our thoughts and for me that is the line around our minds.
3. Red tape is a sort of wall. Behind this wall there is the really true and not the appareance. But like the myth of prometeus of Plato, it’s really hard skip this wall.
1)In the fourth line we can find a dialogue between two men.The first wanted the change of society and the second wanted to stay at home,that represented the society governed by a party.So we have a reference to Orwell because “Home is where two and two always makes up five”
2)This is a second reference to Orwell.Many authors think that April is a month of regeneration of the soul and nature and so acquires a positive connotation.But after in 1984 April have a negative connotation,because Orwell described people alienated.
3-4) the lines of Lirycs was refered to the plot of novel, infact we can find the two characters Wiston and Giulia,that fell in love and after they were discovered.
5-6-7)the text of this song wanted
to emphasize the type of society in 1984 , where people were controlled by the Party.”Green “word was a metaphor related to the restriction of the mind used by big brother .
“the red tape” was a veil behind which hides we find the truth and this concept was linked to two philosophers Kant and shopenhauer.
in kant we find the difference between noumenon that was the truth while the phenomenon is the reality.
In Shopenhauer we can find the concept of “veil of Maia”.
1 in the first four lines we have a sort of dialogue between two men. the dreamer that wanted to change the society and the other the wanted to stay at home in the society governed by a party .In this way we have a referance to Orwell because home is “where two and two always makes up five”
2 it is anothe referance to Orwell. For many authors april was a month of rebirth and rigeneration ,rigeneration of nature and so rigeneration of soul.In 1984 this month aquires a negative connatation because in the society descibed by orwell we have only alienation
3-4 the lines of lyrics are refered to the plot of the novel because we have the presence of two characters thatt fall in love but they are discovered and tortured psicologically and phisically
5-6-7the lines of this song are linked to the society of 1984 because in this kind of society people are controlled by the party in general way,” green belts wrapped around our minds” it is a sort of methaphor that it is linked to the restriction of knwledge used by big brother . While “red tape” is a sort of veil beyond there is the truth and this concept is linked to two important philosophers kant and schopenhauer.in kant we have the distinction between phenomenon ,the reality, and noumenon that is the truth.Instead schopenhauer talks about ” velo di maya”
1) In the novel 1984 we have a dictatorship in the society that affect also people mind. Winston Smith that is the protagonist of the novel is smarter than the actual society and understands what’s going on there. But in the end, through various tortures the dictature reaches its target to divert his thinking on its way.
2)We can find an association between the verse and Chaucer or T.S. Elliot.
Chaucer thinks that april is the month of regeneration of souls Elliot sustain the theory that april is the cruellest month and that winter is better.
1bis)We can associate the songs with 1984. The two lovers can be Winston and Giulia, but their love isn’t allowed by the dictature of the Big Brother.
1) The word truth can be linked to Winston that works in the minister of truth.
2) The green belts are banknotes that divert our thoughts. They are the inivsible hand that set our decisions.
3)The red tape can be linked to a wall that separate normal people from people that belongs to the party
1) In the first four lines we can find a kind of dialogue beetween two people. One wants in a some way to change the reality and the other want to adapt to the life that is forced to live because in relashonship to 1984 we can find a period where everything was private, the freedom of expression follow precise laws because as in the “big brother”.
2) April is a month that is treated in the works of many artists. Eliot uses this month to indicate negative aspect of reality. For the poet the winter is the season that protects people. “2+2=5 is an example to demonstrate the resignation of the people to the totalitarian regime.
1-2) the protagonist of Novel is wiston smith . Beside him act two other caracters: julia Who is in love with wiston and o brien a senior official that the protagonist beliebed friend. Winston and julia become lovers and decide to secretely cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “brotherhood”. O brien discover that and torture them in room 101, o brien submit them to their worst nightmare their love falters and collapses proving not so stringo anymore
1-2-3) the lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984 a society where the people are controllate e by government. For This reason everyone didn’t express his idea, people are controlled by mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the society a te rappresentated by methaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds
Radiohead ‘s song is connected with the novel 1984 and we can see In the first four lines of radiohead’s song a dialog between a party’s member and a dreamer.
The party’s member explains that the dreamer had better to comform himself with the party’s ideals and researching the other rights or freedom is not the right way .This society destroyed people’s ability to think differently and in order to live in peace we have to be ignorant and think what society impose.
In Chaucer’ s conception April is the month of the regeneration of the mind and of the soul but Eliot and Orwell give a negative connotation because people are alienated and oppressed by society and this causes a deep agony.
In Muse’s song “Resistance” , love is a way we could rebell to the society’s oppression. This concept is inspired by Orwell ‘s novel “1984” where two
lovers , Winston and Julia try to creat a little space where they could be free by party’s control . Winston rented a flat where they believed and hoped their love promise could survive and where they could expless their thoughts about society and about the party.
Their hopes were destroyed by the “thought police” controlled by the party , who followed all their movement and actions and thanks to O’Brien , they imprisoned Winston.
Winston didn’t resist under torture and he preferred to sacrifice Julia instead of himself so the party win against love .
In Upresing’s refrain the Muse encourage people to open our minds and fight against ignorance in order to destroy the walls and the limits that society impose to us and that make impossible to find the truth. The world is full of empty people who’s minds this villain society stuff of ill ideals.
“Green belts wrapped around our minds ” is the sentence that symbolizes the way in which the system blocks people thoughts. In “1984” the belts where represented by the thought police, the ministry of love ,the ministry of truth and of peace , who put the limits to people’s minds.
ORWELL: 1984
2 + 2 = 5 :
1 ) “ Are u such a dreamer to put the world to rights ? “
If we take into account the novel 1984 we can assert that the “ dreamer “ is “ the last man “ Winston Smith since he thinks to be able to change the system by rebelling against the Party but he doesn’t know this is only an illusion , a dream ;he will pay with his life his opposition to the Party and finally he submits to the Big Brother saying that 2 + 2 = 5 . We can say that Winston is the metaphor of the “ resignation “ of people to the totalitarian regime which controls all the minds according all the points of view . Orwell wants to put in evidence that in a totalitarian society every opposition will be punished and there is no way in order to escape from this reality .
2 ) We can say that for Orwell April acquires a negative connotation ,it has a cold atmosphere , since there is no possibility to have regeneration , to solution in the society like the one described , where people lose every human characteristic becoming “ machines “ , “ puppets “ in the hands of the ones who are to the power ; people are alienated , they behave no more their freedom and they have to conform to the ideologies and values imposed by the Party .
We can make a comparison with Eliot because he talks about this month in a negative way too . ( April is the cruelest month …the Burial of the Dead ) . According to the poet April has a negative connotation ; in fact since it is the month of the regeneration of the nature and the soul , it regenerates also the memories of the fertility of the past and the desires of the men who are alienated ,so this regeneration makes them understand their “ paralyzed “ and “ alienated “ condition . Winter instead is seen in a positive way because it is the “ steril season “ ,nothing regenerates , it protects men from the memory and the desire of return to the past .
RESISTANCE :
1-1 ) If we consider the novel of Orwell we can say that the lines refer to the love story between Winston and Julia who show their opposition to the Party . They have a love affair but this choice is dangerous for their lives and there are aware of it .The couple meet for the first time in a wood in order to escape from the Big Brother ‘s control that prevents the free love ( sex had to be only a way to procreate and not a pleasure ); then they chose another place in order to avoid suspiciouses , so Winston rents a room in the antique shop of Mr Charrington ; they believe they are in a secret and safe place but they misguide because they are discovered by the police which arrest them . Both Winston and Julia are tortured in the so called Ministry of Love .
UPRISNG :
1 ) According to my opinion the first three lines of Uprising want to underline the “ brainwashing “ operated by the system .
The word “ truth “ acquires a very important meaning .The line “ They hope that we will never see the truth around “ expresses the fact that the system rests its strength on people’s ignorance ( IGNORANCE IS STRENGHT ) . The system keeps us away from the truth hidden behind the “ false truth “ in order to brainwash all the minds in the most simple way , without any effort , hoping that people see the reality for what they want it to be and not as it actually is . ( the idea that 2+2 =5 symbolizes this “ unreality “ , this “ fake truth “ that the system makes the society believe as the “ real truth “ ) . The concept of the “ false reality “ ( appearance ) and the “ true reality “ ( noumeno ) is treated by the german philosopher Schopenhauer . According to him it is necessary breaking the so called “ veil of Maya “ in order to grab the true reality .
The lines : “ They will not force us , they will stop degrading us , they will not control us , we will be victorious “ underline the possibility of a ransom by this situation . I agree with this optimistc vision , in fact according my opinion we can defeat the system and change the reality only if there is enough courage , strength and determination to do it .( if we want it , we can do it ! )
2 )According to my opinion ,the line “ green belts wrapped around our minds “ refers to the act of forging the minds , to the mental constriction , to the “ brainwashing “ operated by the system in order to make the society believe in its ideologies and values .This important theme is in Orwell’s novel in which he puts in evidence the psychological pressure of the society and the huge power of the system that in every case will win against every threat of opposition . (we can make a comparison with William Blake who uses the metaphor “ mind forged manacles “ putting in evidence the lack of freedom of human minds which are no more able to think and image because of the external impositions in the industrialized city of London ) . We can find this situation also in the modern society which is tied to the external impositions of the system although this “ constrictions “ are indirect . People don’t have enough strength and courage to rebel to this “ orders “ coming from the external world and to change things ; they are no more human being but “ puppets “ to brainwash ; we can say that the contemporary society is paralyzed such as the one described by Joyce in “ Dubliners “ .
3 ) In reference to 1984 , the “ red tape “ can be seen as the metaphor of the politic power of the Party that hides the “ real truth “. ( like the red tape can be seen as a sort of shield since it does not allow the direct contact with the ground , so the Party is the “ red shield “ because it does not allow the society the direct contact with the true reality ) .
1)In the first lines of this song there are two people Who are talking about the dream and the possibility of changing the reality. Infact it is what winstonsmith, the leading character in the Novel 1984, tries to do. He is against a society in which a political dictatorship rules. And in wich there is no privacy due to a figure called Big Brother.
2)some other poets have mentioned the month of april. For example Eliot in ” the burial of dead” or “chancer in Canterbury tales”
3-4)The connection with Orwell’s Novel is given by the couple Winston and Julia who arte in love with each other but they decided to go against the laws of that time that wanted people to be togheter only for procreation purposes. So, they escape to a hidden place, but they will be soon discovered and tortured in order to test their love.
5)The first 3 lines of the lyricks refered to the fact that the Big Brother didn’t want people to know the truth. But Winston Who is an emplayee of the ministery of truth has the task to rewrite the historical documents and let the truth.
6)I think that it is refered to the fact that the Big Brother tryed to make people less and less free of expressing their own opinions and knowledge
7)The red tape might represent the simble of the border that people can’t traspass in order to get to truth.
1-1) We may combine these four lines to the words of O’Brien in the interrogation to W.Smith. In fact Smith is the dreamer who wanted to change the system and O’Brien tortures him until he said that 2+2=5.
2) “January has April’s showers”
in Orwell this two months are united among them. They had a negative connotation because they represented the monotony. Also for Eliot april is a negative month.
3) Julia and Smith represent the characters of the resistance in opposition to Big Brother that decided weddings and created love. in fact they found a secret room where they could love each other freely but they were discovered and tortured because of their love.
1-2) this three lines are referred to a conformist system where the government through the use of the media directs all people to have a uniform thought hiding in this way the “truth” and limiting knowledge and freedom.
3) “red tape” symbolizes the limit of knowledge that society can never reach because of big brother.
1) In the novel 1984 there is a sort of political dictatorship upon the society. Wiston Smith,who is a very intelligent man, undestands what is happening and he tries to change the system,but he is stopped by an politician,who tortures him during his imprisonment. Finally, Wiston submits to the Big Brother and he will say that 2+2=5
2)Usually it is the policy to be subordinated to the people , who has the right to elect politicians and approve or repeal laws and decrees .
In the novel 1984 takes place otherwise . Politics , the big brother , affects the lives of the people by making them accept any kind of thought and rule of life . That’s why the expression ‘ ‘ in January has the rains in April ‘ ‘ . It is not April , or politics , to have the rains of January, but it’s January , or the people , to have the rains of April, to have the Big Brother rules.
Some poets have spoken of the month of April , as Chaucer into Canterbury tales and Eliot into The burial of the dead .For the first,month of April has a positive symbolic meaning , it is the month of the regeneration of nature and soul .For the second April poet takes on a negative connotation , in fact it is the month in which the man awakens from winter sleep and rethink his state and to his being passive towards the society.
3-4)The lyrics are based on the novel of Orwell , in which a pair , made up of Winston and Julia , impelled by love decides to go against the policies and ideals , but in the end will be crushed , like any other form irrational and sentimental because it was the Big Brother to decide weddings and intimate moments between people .
This is because the sexual act was linked to procreation , then used for a biological purpose .
5)Winston is an employee of the Ministry of Truth , an organization in charge to rewrite the entire history , to better adapt to the ” truths ” disseminated by Big Brother . The task of Winston is therefore to rewrite the historical documents , the censoring any information is passed from the upper that does not reflect the line imposed by the regime .
6)According to my opinion the green line around the mind is a metaphor used to indicate a restriction of knowledge, of the rules, of free speech, free press, that at that time the big brother was performing on people.
7)the red tape can be the symbol of the border , beyond which you can discover the whole truth that the big brother keeps hidden from the people. A kind of circle which, if broken , free from oppression and mental reservation whoever is inside .
"Mi piace""Mi piace"
Well…January April..I think we have to talk about it😜😜😜😜
"Mi piace""Mi piace"
1) In the first four lines we can find a sort of a dialogue between two people. One wants in a sense to change the reality and the other wants adapt to life that is forced to live, because, in referent to 1984, we can find a period when everything was private,even the freedom of expression had to follow precise laws, because as in the “Big Brother” everythinh was checked.
“two & two makes up five”, symbol of the irreality, shows the emblem of the false dogmas in which the regime is forcing their subjects to believe.
All, often, we are afraid to say our, fear of being juded, of marking mistakes or not being appreciated. But today, although times have changed, people lack the courage to speak and even to think to express a simple thought in front of people.
2) April is a month that is treated in the works of many artists.
Eliot uses this month to indicate the negative aspect of reality. Infact for him the winter is the season that protects people.
Chaucer uses it to indicate a month of the degeneration.
But in the “2+2=5″ in referent to the novel of Orwell, for me, is an example to demonstrate the resignation of the people to the totalitarian regime.
1-2) The lines of the lyrics are refered to the novel because in it we have the presence of two characters, Winston Smith and Julia, who fall in love and because of the regime did not want the coupling between two people if not for the purpose of procreation, they are hiding in a place out of sight, but soon are discovered and tortured psychologically and physically, is put to the test their love, then we see that isn’t so great and true as it seems.
1-2-3) The lines are refered to the fact that the system imposes on false dogmas subjects by making them believe they are true, continually influencing their mind (green belts wrapped around our minds), depriving them of their freedom of expression and thought and hiding the true reality behind a ” veil “(red tape). in reference to the veil, we can make a connection, in my opinion, with the philosopher Schopenhauer that the “veil of Maya” that he is in his philosophy, is something that is in front of the eyes, obscuring the view, not allowing to see beyond, to grasp the reality, which can be accessed by removing the veil.
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Regeneration not degeneration😛😛😛
Apart from some mistakes I like it
The connection with Schopenhauer….well done!!
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These are the answers to the questions of the firt part of the project, in the days to came you will receive the others 🙂
1)”Are you such a dreamer to put the world to rights?” these lines refer to all those people who delude themselves thinking they can change things .They delude themselves because they don’t take into account an extremely important fact: those who have the power always win,every effort is almost always a failure,hope in change is pure illusion. So in this sense the listener is a dreamer. If we consider the novel 1984 we can say that Winston Smith,defined by O’Brian as the last man, is “the dreamer” ,who paid with his life the acts of rebellion against the Party. the theme dealt by radiohead is very important. Nay , we can say that it regards the history of mankind from the beginning.However,today more than ever,the control exercised on our mind is really strong. The contemporary society uses “refined means”: social networks,television and so on. So we are puppets in their hand,and now I can no longer find hope in a different world. In my experiece I was shoked by the fact that many of my contemporaries are not aware of the futility of certain things that take us away from the real problems. Sometimes they are not even capable of thinking by themselves(except someone),they constantely seeking the support of others regarding a decision or about what to think. this is absurd and it is the result of the society we are living in. I think that things can not change because “the dreamers” are few, or because they have not the courage to come forward. But who are the dreamers? They are those who, paradoxically, have understood the reality for what it is. But the dreamer is also isolated because of external forces: the others who are conformated. the human beings hate to be the “lone voice” because it is possible that they will be rejected by the society . So the dreamers have 2 possibilities: suppress their thoughts and conform with society or break with it anh shouting in a desert her/his despair without being heard by anyone. So in a certain sense the solution requires courage , but we don’t have it. We suffer of a sort of interior and external paralysis.
The mental constriction is also due to a very old question: the religion. Probably it is only a human need because we feel the nedd to gave an explanation for our existence (as feuerbach saied) or because we had to find conmfort from the society that operates inequalities(marx’s thought).Religion tells us how to act,leaving little importance to the free will. I always wondered why there were so many religions and why each religion tries to prevail over the others even by the use of violence. So from this point of view,religion is often contradictory because it gave great importance to the love and than operates massive massacre.
Let’s to take into account the catholic church. It i sa based on particular dogmas but over the years these dogmas have changed and adapted to the contemporary society and personally I hate this fact because it confuses me and make me think that it is only a way to obtain consensus, and so that is is just another mean of the power. the church also professes things that it doesn’t respect. I sum up by saying that in the course of history ,fot the christianity,are valid the following equations: love=massacres , poverty= the luxury of the vatican , chastity =pedophilia , do not steal = scandals involving cardinals who have built their wealth on funds for the needy. Maybe we should distinguish between what men do and what the goog lord tells usto do? I have no idea, I an confused and worn out dubts. However things in favor of the thesis of religion as mean of control are more powerful. Our lives have a path already mapped. We are not free, and the only liberty we have is the one to think and ,as winston says, to affirm that “ 2+2=4”. Olso Blake talks about the liberty; he used the metaphore “mind forg’d menacles” and he want to say that a mind forged in a costriction is not free and incapable to image,to think;, so he underline the lack of liberty in a london afflicted by the industralisation.
“I’ll stay home forever where two & two always makes up five”. These lines express the idea that the ignorance is the best way to protect ouselves from the power.But as Orwell says “ignorance is strength”, strength for the party that in this way is able to control the mind easly. we can say that we are ignorant for 2 reasons : we don’t know all that we should to know , but only what “the big of the world” want us to know; and sometimes we prefer to bypass things,events,problems.
2)It is another reference to Orwell. We know that he starts his novel with the words : “ it was a bright cold day in april “. April is ever described as a month of rebirth and regeneration but there we find a cold atmosphere. Indeed, we cannot have regeneration ,life in a society like the one descrived by orwell where people are machines ,they are alienated and they are losing their feelings; so this month aquires a negative connotation. Also T.S.Eliot talks about april in a negative way. He starts the burial of the dead with the lines : “april is the cruellest month,breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixting memory and desire,stirring dull roots with spring rain.”; so april is a negative month because it regenerates memoried and desire in a land that is dead just like the people that are living in it. After he tolks about winter in a positive way because it is the season af the steril present ,so Eliot subverted the order of natural things. Both eliot and Orwell present april in opposition to Chaucher’s consideration concerning this month.
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Great!!! I’m looking forward to reading the other answers!!!😊😊😊
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“resistance”
1-2)the lines of the lyrics refer to the love story treated in the novel between Winston and Julia. In a world in which love,freedom,and truth are opressed by hate,fear and lies also an intense look can be interpreted as a threat. Indeed ,initially Winston is afraid julia is a member of the thought police and he images to rape an kill her. Actually her intentions are of a quite dfferent nature: acting out a fall , she sent him a piece of paper with the words:” i love you “. Both are against the party and they hate the big brother. This is the beginning of their love affair; but this choise is so dangerous for their lives, and they are aware of it. They meet for the first time in a sort of wood because here they are not controlled by the telescreen and they make love together. Since they have to change the meeting place in order to avoid arousing suspicions, winston rents a room in the antique shop of mr. Charrington. There they can talk freely, doing what thet eant to do , they can live .They believe they are in a secret safe place, but they are in error. Indeed a day , when julia and winstin are looking out the windonw they remain petrified(as the reader ) by hearing the sound of the metallic voice from the telescreen hidden behind a painting. many police officers enter the room and arrest them and they discover that O’Brian is an enemy (he meets them same time ago and gave the book of Goldstain).Both know what expect to them: torture and death. Now every hope has failed. Julia and winston are tortured in the ministry of love. In the book we can read only the tortures of the poor Winston. He is very stron but not enough to overcome his biggest fear: rats. When winston please O’Brian to do this torture to julia, he knows that Winston has completely folded to rha party. After room 101 Winston no longer loves julia, and she no longer loves him . By reading about their meeting after a period I felt sad and disappointed; I didn’t want an end like this one….but the greatest impact is given by the last sentence of the book : now Winston loves the big brother….it’s heartbreaking.
So now we can understand the message that orwell want to convay: in a totalitarian society every act outside the rules will be punished and there is no way to escape from this reality. In this regard I would like to conclude with the words of a song very dear to me: Is this the real life ? is this just fantasy ? caught in a landslide no escape from reality .( queen-bohemian rhapsody)
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Go on Conny!!!
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“uprising”
1)these verses clearly explain the intentions of the government: to keep our minds in the arms of Morpheus. I believe that the Muse want to talk about a sort of brainwashing that the system operates. The word “truth” assumes a very important meaning. we read: “they hope we will never see the truth around”. This expresses the fact that the strength of the system is based on ignorance (Orwell says: the ignorance is strength). they try to keep us away from the true reality hidden behind appearances. They hope that people see the reality not as it is but for what they want to appear; we all live in a world where the truth and false are mixed, false may be true and the true may be false. We find this situation also in the novel 1984 where also the history facts undergoes many changes, and what was true until the day before,became false and so on.
However, according to the muse, there is the possibility of a ransom by this situation and we understand it well in the following verses: they will not force us,they will stop degrading us,they will not control us, we will be victorious. however i’m not agree,the opposition is just a dream. Although we try to oppose ,their will always win. Also in this case i would conclude by taking up a senstence from the book “hedgehog’s elegance” (Muriel Burbery) that I like very much: La gente crede di inseguire le stelle e finisce come un pesce rosso nella boccia.
2)”green belts wrapped around our minds” refer to the mental constriction,the brain whashinng operated by the system. we find this theme in the novel 1984 where people suffer of a strong pshycological control.taking into account the contemporary society it is a reference to all the religious and social dogmas that we had to respect.
this is one of the reasons why the system wins: people are too tied to these external impositions and are not able to rise up and change things. People aware of what they are few. we can say that one of the keywords to read the contemporary society is: paralysis. This issue is also trated by joyce in his work ” the dubliners”.
3)according to my opinion ,the “red tape” is the set of offices and official of public administration, so the bureaucracy,the entire system that tries to hide the truth. In 1984 the “red tape” are :the ministry of truth,ministry of love,ministry of love and ministry of peace.
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You. .rebel!!!😛😛I’ll miss you …
Anyway…I DON’T agree with you…HOPE is our salvation…😘😘😘
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1) 1984 is the title of the most important novel of George Orwell wrote in 1948. During the period of the Cold War was considered one of the most significant novels because the subject matter was brought back to a criticism of the Soviet regime. As the title of the song ” 2 + 2 = 5 ” in 1984 is a perfect form of political and social dictatorship in which the upper ideology can shape at will the minds of the people so much to say that the laws of nature do not exist, or rather, exist as the party wants them to be and it is therefore assumed control of the mind from every point of view, in fact, the two verses “I will stay forever home / Where two and two always makes five”, are connected the idea of ignorance that turns our brain to a safe house where two plus two always makes five. If we are dominated by ignorance, it can easily be controlled by someone else, such as Big Brother. The first two lines, “You’re such a dreamer / by wanting to put in place the world?”, Is a direct question to the listener, where it seems that we are trying to change the world, even if, in the end, all efforts are useless . For this we are only dreamers
2) April spring month par excellence is associated in the popular imagination with the beauty and love. For Eliot instead there is a reversal: April is the month when the buds, flowers and so they come out after the cold winter, but their “rise up” is full of pain and uncertainty.Absolutely unconventional poet says that you should prefer the winter, because the season when everything remains as it is, “asleep” .The phrase ” in January was rainy in April ” may refer to this society as conceived by Orwell nightmare where there is no debate, because it is assumed that the Party has never torto.Si then admits to manipulate reality, with It lies in the constant position of advantage over the truth, reflecting the yield from Deglio individuals against the dictatorial regime.
1-2)The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a subordinate member of the party, apparently docile, but in fact really can not stand the pressure of the party. Beside him act two other characters: Julia, who is in love with Winston, and O’Brien, a senior official that the protagonist believes amico.Winston and Julia become lovers and decide to secretly cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “Brotherhood “. But once confidatisi with O’Brien discover that he is a member of the thought police, who once discovered the plan of the two capture them and torture them in the room 101, at first the love between the two seems to resist and be stronger to all kinds of torture but when O’Brien submit them to their worst nightmares their love falters and collapses proving not so strong anymore
1) The thirty-nine Winston Smith is an employee of the Party Outside working at the offices of the Ministry of Truth, instructed to “correct” the books and the already published newspaper articles, that is, change them so as to make verifiable and truthful predictions made by the External Party . He also deals with change the written history, thus contributing to the fame of the infallibility of the Party itself, apply the damnatio memoriae towards dissidents “never existed” and so on. Apparently it is a malleable type, but Winston actually can not stand the regime conditionings and fails to adapt its mind to doublethink, so much so that it begins to write on a diary her feelings of discontent against the regime.
2)The green line around the mind can be a clear reference to one of the main party pacts: “Ignorance is ” force according to which the greater the knowledge of an individual, the more it is prone to doubts and contradictions of thought. If knowledge is poor every individual will be ” forced ” to act according to the dictates of the Party
3) the red tape can be seen as a limit to which every individual is Enlarged to dominate as the ” big brother ” it imposes a kind of gratitude from the people because thanks to the Party can riternersi fully protected from those who are the wars that are involving that period in fact using the doublethink, the Party is able not only to bomb his own people saying that it’s an enemy attack; But also the same Party members are indoctrinated to believe that they are the enemies to drop bombs ..
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1)The first four lines have a really strong meaning.We can understand that a dialogue is taking place between two people of completely different thoughts. The person who is “talking” is the stereotype of person who has no personality, it is compliant to the mass.This person is amazed to speak with a person of the opposite side,so a person detached from the mass.This kind of people are called “dreamers” and they compose the minority of the population. In this case the word “dreamer” is a paradox because the dreamer is the only one who has understand the reality as it really is,so the dreamer is a rebel against the society.The rebels bother to society because they are the only people with a bit of intelligence that would change society.I say “would” and not “want” because it is impossible for them change the society.They are destroyed by the society as soon as they manifest their thoughts so they pay with their lives the fact that they are unticonventional peole. For this reason common people prefer to be ignorant,under the control of the Party in order to not die. If we think about 1984 we immediately understand that the dreamer is Winston Smith that was tortured and killed by O’Brien for his conspiratorial mindset,so it is easier to stay home with your arms folded doing nothing and be completely subjected to the Party instead to try to make justice prevail. 2)”January has April’s showers” is a reference to Orwell and T.S Eliot.According to them April has a negative connotation and it is in contrast with the traditional conception of April. In fact Chaucer’s conception of April is really positve because April is the month of the regeneration of the soul that was possible thanks to the political contest that was better than the modern one. In Orwell and Eliot April acquire negative connotation because it is impossible to have a regeneration of the soul,people are completely alienated ,they have no more feelings so there is a kill of the soul instead of a regeneration.
Muse Resistence.
The lines of Resistence’s lyrics refers to the two lovers of 1984: Winston Smith and Julia,whose name is never revealed. This is the moment when they rent an house in a working class district.They made this decision because we know that both of them were against the Party so in order to express their feelings and politc side,they needed of a safe place in which they can do this without be checked by the party. This is impossible because the Party has hidden a lot of telescreens everywhere in order to control the life of everyone. In fact there was also a telescreen hidden behind a painting in their room. One day,suddenly many officers of the thought police entered in their room and arrested them. I think that this police is called “Thought police” because they are able to see inside people’s mind and there is no way to escape from their control. Winston and Julia loved each other greatly and they promise that they will never changed their mind and their love will never stop burning…but it was not so. At the beginning,when Winston was tortured by O’Brien,Winston was able to resist but when O’Brien decided to bring him in the room 101 (this room was famous beacuse here are made the worst torture that a person can imagine) he was tortured with the worst Winston’s nightmare: rats. Winston didn’t resist to this torture and he decided to sacrifice Julia instead of him. This event represents the victory of the Party and the defeat of the “dreamer”.In this way Orwell makes us understand that there is not solution to this radical form of totalitarianism and that is better to be passive people completely subjugated to the Party.
Muse Uprising.
Also this song is strictly linked to Orwell’s 1984. “We will never see the truth around”…this is a really strong sentence that makes us understand that the greatest part of people is ignorant,they don’t have any moral feeling and they don’t care how the world is going on. So it is impossible to see the truth in a world composed by people that are empty inside. According to the Muse,there is the possibility to overcome the limits made by this empty people and so to reach the truth; we can see this from the refrain and also from the sentence in bracket that is located at the end of some stanzas which encourages us to get a move on. I disagree with them because i think that is only a dream that is impossible to realize.
“Green belts wrapped around our minds”..this sentence symbolizes how the system blocks people’s thoughts. This theme is really strong in 1984 because we can find a lot of “belts” that the Party used to control people’s mind.We can take into account the new dictionary that people are forced to use, this is a dictionary with few words so people cannot express their thoughts.
“And endless red tape to keep the truth confined” I think that the red tape is,how it is expressed in the sentence, the means through the Party has to keep the truth hidden.In 1984 this task is entrusted to the Thought Police,the ministry of truth,the ministry of love and ministry of peace.
I really enjoy doing this project because i love Muse and also the thematic treated by this topic…Have a nice day Prof!
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Thanks a lot!!
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1 . In the song we can find a dialogue between two people. This is linked to the novel of orwell about the idea that people didn’t explain their ideas and they ere subordinated to the society. For example winston knew that 2+2=4 , but in order to live he said that 2+2=5
2. April is considered the month of rigeneration of the nature linked to the regeneration of the soul .In orwell the idea that”in January has the rains in April ‘, becouse are people that are controlled by the state ( the big brother)
3.4.the lines of the song are linked to the love between julia and winston. This kind of love is secret but isn’t very strong , in fact when The big brother didn’t want this relation, it fall.
5.6.7. The Lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984, a society in wich the thought of people are controlled by the governament. For this reason everyone did’t express his idea , this theme is present Also in the modern society, people in fact are controlled by the mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the sociaty are rappresented by the metaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds. While the red tapes is the symbol of the limits of the truth
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1) There is no place for dreamers in the Party.Big Brother controls everything and only one insignificant dream or a thought,against the Party,could lead to death.If you still believe that 2+2=4 you’re wrong,2+2=5,this is the only truth,because big brother said this and nothing can change.
2)Chaucer in “The Canterbury Tales” describes the rains in April as a sign of rebirth,in contrast to Elliot that saw April like the cruellest month and also he belived that winter is better because in this period everything remains as it is,in a kind of sleep.
1-2)These verses can be traced to the love between Smith and Julia,infact they meet in total secrecy and each time with the fear of getting caught from the Big Brother and this because the Party wanted to eliminate completely all emotions,especially love.
1)This happens from very long time,all kings,all governments,they have always done all and more to hide the truth,because if people knew that there is another way to handle the world,a better way,it would be the end for them and their power.In “1984” infact there is no possibility to know the real truth,becouse every book,papers or link with the past is canceled.
2)Green as the color of money.The belts wrapped around our minds refer to the closed-mindedness.Expecially in “1984”,the Party controls everything and all thoughts.
3)The expression “red tape” refers to a series of laws that seem useless,but that governament introduces to get something.This happens very often in the superstate of Oceania,becouse the Party introduces a lot of useless reform as the decrease of the chocolate.
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Well..I like the idea “Green as the color of money”..you should have developed it!!😊
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1) George Orwell used for the first time the statement that ” two and two are five” in his famos work 1984.where The power is in the hands of a single party , the Party simply said.owned by the big brother.His eyes are the screens , televisions equipped with camera , installed by law in each house of the Ingsoc members and that of the Outer Party members can not turn off , but they can at least attenuate the volume . These TV – cameras , everywhere , in addition to spreading propaganda 24 hours a 24 , spy life of any member of Ingsoc , nullifying all possible forms of privacy : in this way , the government can easily observe any form of behavior, even unconscious , it reveals that an individual has thoughts against the Party orthodoxy . Such observation mechanism is carried on continuously , and each Party member.in the first four lines of the song ,it is expressed the single thoughts of the modern society.(refers to 1984) .in which , the questioner is afraid to break the chains with the society and the government,he is a slaves of moral ,religious,and political life.he hasn’t the courage to rebel,
because the society of today , like the one described Orwell (in 1984) , is dominated by the single thought,that does nothing but indicate how we must adapt to society . Today in fact, what feeds the powers of the single thought are social networks , advertisements, tv ettc.
This is why the dreamer , since there is no hope to change the world , he rifuges at home , where he can build a fictional world , where no one can counter his opinion.
2)in the song, like in the orweel and in the eliot’s poet, April has a negative connotation.
It does not represent the month of purification of the soul.
there is this pessimistic view because the individual is forced to live in a society where everyone thinks like the others . so a regeneration is impossible.
Resistance
1) and 2)
theri is a clear reference to two lovers of the work of Orwell.The thirty-nine Winston Smith is an employee of the Outer Party.he resents the regime conditionings and unable to adjust their minds to doublethink , so much so that it begins to write on a diary her feelings of discontent against the regime ..His Life changes when one day he meets julia.Winston falls in love with Julia , despite the regime forbid sexual relationships that have no purpose other than procreation . To avoid detection during their amorous encounters , the two lovers , with the help of Mr. Charrington , find shelter in a room located in the quarters to Prolet , or the area of the city less guarded because it is inhabited by the working class illiterate .subsequently. Winston and Julia are subjected to a program of physical torture.brainwashed will change his mind,and it will adapt to the regime thought.
uprising
1)”truth” in the first three lines of the song has a strong meaning.who govern us use the power of information .the which makes tap into multiple truths and holds the foreign person from it.the author of the song emphasizes that keep us uninformed by everything.and he invites us to wake up and to rebel.
2)”the green belts wrapped around our minds” it’s refers to the media of government control.in fact, today we are being spied .Thank to the power of Information there is not more privacy like in the society described by Orwell
3)”The red tape” is the absolute truth .the truth that is hidden. where the common person can not access to it. we can not know it . because it goes beyond appearances.
This concept can also be connected to immanuel kant . with its distinction between phenomenon and noumenon.
see u tommorow . hope u i like it bye
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…your philosophy teacher would be happy 🙂
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These four first lines represent in a very perfect way the message expressed by the Party in the novel 1984, in fact these lines can be linked to the words of O’Brien in the interrogation to W.Smith.
The dreamer is Smith himself, who wanted to change the world built by the Party. Interesting is the sentence “to and two always makes up five” clearly taken by the novel where O’Brian imposes this thought to W.Smith.This represents the forgery of reality caused by the party.
Jenuary and April are two months that despite the different interpretations given by the variour artists they have always represented two oppostes.In Chaucer April represents the best month, the one of regeneration of the nature and of the soul and so the month in which people started their pilgrimage in order to find their faith.
In Eliot April has a different meaning; it is the crullest month because it was the month of the resurface of the memories of the past.On the order side Jenuary for Eliot represents the month of the letargy in which the thoughts are covered by the snow and for this reason it is considered by the authour the best period of the year.
In the novel 1984 of Orwell ,differently from the other writers, Orwell doesn’t make this distinction between these two months, as if the seasons are united among them.April is no more the month of regeneration,Jenuary is no more the month that covers eveything but they arte the month of the monotony represented by the shower. This image is the representation of the will of the Party that wants to delete from the mind of people the past and the present in order to deny their love in favour of the growth of the Party.
Resistance
These lines are connected to the episode in which Smith and Julia were discovered by the policy of the Party.
Julia and Smith represent the characters of the resistance at the Party; in fact the text says” love is our resistance” because the love professed by them is passionate in opposition to the idea of love created by the Party according to it love has to be only procreation without any kind of felling and pleasure. Instead love between Smith and Julia is body and soul Union caused also by their opposition to the Party. They found a secret room where they could enjoy their freely passion. This Freedom was denied them by the Party that controlled and Saw everything.
Uprising
In the novel 1984 doesn’t exist the truth because it doesn’t exist the reality.
The Party created a own reality that made people belive to be Always in poverty and sofference conditions.
“We will never see the truth around”.People had not to know the reality because this doesn’t exist.
The belts represent the mental constription given by the Party that imposes its ideas as belts that resound in the head of people.This is a way in order to block the thoughts of people.
The Party adopted some misures like a new dictionary with few words imposed to people in order to control their minds.
We can say that people are in a certain sense alienated like the workers of Eliot that didn’t belive in anything.
The Red tape represents the Administrative bureaucratic figure of the Party.They controlled the behaviours, the actions and the thoughts of people. These administrations are:The ministery of Peace, Ministery of Love and Ministery of truth. These kind of administrations let The Government(The Big Brother) to impose its dictature.
The Government expressed by Orwell in this novel represents a totalitarian regime constituted by the Leadership of one only man (The dictature) linked to one only Party.
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Thanks to you 2….but the grammar!!
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Orwell’s 1984 masterpiece is set in a future where the world is ruled by three totalitarian powers .The protagonist Wiston is committed to edit the newspaper articles in favor of the party but he is unable to have a similar thought to the party and for that he writes a diary where he expresses his negative feelings toward the party. Winston and Julia had different ideas from those of the party and believed that they could change things. The regime, however, was so strong as to have imposed its ideology at all so if the scheme says that 2 + 2 = 5 then the people will say that 2 + 2 = 5. The man is considered a dreamer because even if he tries to change things, will fail, however, because the party will make you brainwashed.
The expression ‘January has April’s showers “we can connect with two other authors TS Elliot and Chaucer. As Elliot also Orwell sees April in a negative way for Elliot fact it was a sterility month; unlike Chaucer who considered Aprle like a month of rebirth.
The text of the Muse refers to the time when Winston and Julia believe they are finally alone away from big brother but they were wrong and they are arrested and taken to a prison in the ‘Minister of love’, where they are tortured and made to join the party thinking .
The lovers of the text are Winston and Julia who shared negative ideas on the party. Wiston falls in love with Julia, despite the regime because the regime did not want to accept reports only for procreation and that’s why the two lovers meet in the less supervised areas of the city but are discovered and tortured. Wiston initially did not betrays Julia, but when it is brought into the room 101 where he is tortured with rats, which are his nightmare, he in fear betrays Julia.
The party seeking to mold under its control the population and therefore hides the truth. The most ‘daring citizens’ who try to rebel against the thought of the party are still captured and taken to centers where they will change their way of thinking even if their is truth will always adhere to the party thought.
This expression symbolizes the oppression that creates the party on the minds of the people; as well as another ‘red tape’ symbol symbolizes the way in which the party hides the truth so as to adhere to everybody on party.
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1) 1984 is a novel written by Orwell and he criticizes the totalitarian regimes. in the first four lines, the artist has revealed a kind of political dictatorship on society. we can say that every human being has lost its freedom to think, to act in fact these people are controlled by parties that impose their ideals such as 2 + 2 = 5, people are subjected to the system. 2) In the expression ‘ ‘ in January has the rains in April ‘ ‘ we have a reference to the other authors that we have studied. For Chaucer,April is ever described as a month of rebirth and regeneration but there we find a cold atmosphere. Indeed, we cannot have regeneration ,life in a society like the one descrived by orwell where people are machines ,they are alienated and they are losing their feelings; so this month aquires a negative connotation. Also T.S.Eliot talks about april in a negative way. He starts the burial of the dead with the lines : “april is the cruellest month,breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixting memory and desire,stirring dull roots with spring rain.”; so april is a negative month because it regenerates memoried and desire in a land that is dead just like the people that are living in it. After he tolks about winter in a positive way because it is the season af the steril present ,so Eliot subverted the order of natural things. Both eliot and Orwell present april in opposition to Chaucher’s consideration concerning this month. 3-4) some lines of this song make reference to Orwell’s novel because there are two characters Winston and Julia, they love each other very much but their love contrasts politics and ideals of the party but in the end will be crushed . The Big Brother decides the marriage and intimate moment between people. The purpose of sex is the procreation and not pleasure. 5) Winston is a member of the Ministry of Truth , it is an organisation in charge to rewrite the entire history , to better adapt to the ” truths ” disseminated by Big Brother . The task of Winston is to rewrite the documents. 6) according to my opinion the phrase :”green belts wrapped around our minds” symbolizes how the system blocks people’s thoughts. the people aren’t free , they must thought like the party thought, they have lost free speech, free press. 7) The “red tape” can be the symbol of the border , beyond which you can discover the whole truth that the big brother keeps hidden from the people. the bureaucracy tries to hide the truth. In 1984 the “red tape” are :the ministry of truth,ministry of love,ministry of love and ministry of peace.
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1) In the novel 1984 there is a sort of political dictatorship upon the society. Wiston Smith,who is a very intelligent man, undestands what is happening and he tries to change the system,but he is stopped by an politician,who tortures him during his imprisonment. Finally, Wiston submits to the Big Brother and he will say that 2+2=5
2) April spring month par excellence is associated in the popular imagination with the beauty and love. For Eliot instead there is a reversal: April is the month when the buds, flowers and so they come out after the cold winter, but their “rise up” is full of pain and uncertainty.Absolutely unconventional poet says that you should prefer the winter, because the season when everything remains as it is, “asleep” .The phrase ” in January was rainy in April ” may refer to this society as conceived by Orwell nightmare where there is no debate, because it is assumed that the Party has never torto.Si then admits to manipulate reality, with It lies in the constant position of advantage over the truth, reflecting the yield from Deglio individuals against the dictatorial regime.
1-2)The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a subordinate member of the party, apparently docile, but in fact really can not stand the pressure of the party. Beside him act two other characters: Julia, who is in love with Winston, and O’Brien, a senior official that the protagonist believes amico.Winston and Julia become lovers and decide to secretly cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “Brotherhood “. But once confidatisi with O’Brien discover that he is a member of the thought police, who once discovered the plan of the two capture them and torture them in the room 101, at first the love between the two seems to resist and be stronger to all kinds of torture but when O’Brien submit them to their worst nightmares their love falters and collapses proving not so strong anymore.
1-2-3)The Lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984, a society in wich the thought of people are controlled by the governament. For this reason everyone did’t express his idea , this theme is present Also in the modern society, people in fact are controlled by the mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the sociaty are rappresented by the metaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds. While the red tapes is the symbol of the limits of the truth
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– In the first four lines the author asks if we consider ourselves dreamers. Referring to Orwell’s 1984 as though the big brother to ask us if we are dreamers, if we believe to be able to straighten the world, which only he can keep it under control. Someone knowing the end of the novel would say that it would be easier to stay at home under its control represented by “2 + 2 = 5”.
– April always considered as the month of the regeneration of the soul, both in Orwell that Eliot acquires a negative connotation. With Orwell April it will never come, in the sense that people completely alienated will ever regenerate their soul.
– There is definitely a connection with the plot, precisely, we could sell the story when they were discovered and captured by members of the party, when the two lovers were separated.
– The speaker is probably Julia, woman seeking certainty and security in his love for Winston, to be able to survive what will happen.
– Indeed, a rather complex notion, truth is synonymous with freedom, to understand something that is prevented from knowing, so be free. The big brother of the dictatorship is the “protection” that only he can provide. But this “protection” has a high price, have control of the minds, immense power. There is talk of a much more complex dictatorship of the totalitarian regimes of the time, something more like the situation today. About what Orwell was a big, able to predict the situation we have reached.
– This means the control of our minds, using any means available as posters and reduction of the dictionary, to the point of being ourselves to take everything, believing to have freedom of choice.
The red ribbon represents the truth, hidden truth, all you do not want us to know because then could represent an obstacle to the advancement of their program of conquest of the minds, in fact, the Orwell novel describes in great detail what can happen to those who opposes the party.
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1. the lyrics are very strongly linked to Orwell’s works. As many have said, 2+2=5 refers to “1984” in which the unorthodox main character believes that the government is not perfect and remembers its lies etc. he believes, metaphorically, that 2+2=4 in a world in which everyone submits to the government and accepts that 2+2=5. Also, in the music video, a cartoon depicts pigs abusing cows, acting as humans and teaching the cows that 2+2=5. This, is a reference to Orwell’s “Animal farm”, in which animals revolt against their human oppressors, and form an equal society, which turns sour in a totalitarian leadership which resembles that of the humans. Orwell’s works are critical of totalitarian leaderships and I believe this songs is agreeing with this.
2.”January has april’s showers”is trying to show how much it lacks logic.Different poets talks about the month of april just like Chaucer in Canterbury Tales or Thomas Eliot in The burial of the dead.For Eliot the cruellest month is April because spring with its rebirth of nature, leaves emerge in men of wasteland the new -old impulses, expectations, desires and hopes, that the poor and – or empty life that they lead will inevitably fall, as an illusion of short duration, and that at least the winter had the merit of keeping dormant in his lethargic atarassia. For Chaucer April is the sweet showers fall that pierce March’s drought to the root and all and bathed every vein in liquor that has power to generate therein and sire the flower.
INSIDE THE LYRICS ”RESISTANCE”
1-2 The Resistance is entirely inspired by the novel by George Orwell in 1984 and 1948, in addition to social and political issues.The Resistance follows the romance between the two protagonists Winston and Julia.Winston and Julia materialize their rebellion to Big Brother in an effort to recover and keep alive two of the features that make this a human being: the memory and love.In particular, the protagonist, whose work at the Ministry of Truth is to delete and modify any document referred to the past that would question the words of Big Brother, through intellectual speculation, seeks to recover the memory of things past.
Julia, however, used in pornosez section of Amena department directs its rebellion will toward sexual passion, free, “free”, the pursuit of pleasure and not, as required by the Big Brother, exclusively procreative purposes.
INSIDE ”UPRISING”
1.the protagonist, whose work at the Ministry of Truth is to delete and modify any document referred to the past that would question the words of Big Brother, through intellectual speculation, seeks to recover the memory of things past. from these statements we can say that there is not a real truth.
2.According to my opinion ”Green belts wrapped around our mind”wants to represent how the system blocks people’s thought, the restriction of knowledge, of the rules.
3.Red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making. It is usually applied to governments corporation and other large.In 1984 represent the Party where they have the control of the behaviours, the actions of people. In1984 the red tape were: ministery of Peace, Ministery of Love and Ministery of truth.
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-2+2=5
1)In the first lines we can consider Orwell’s 1984. We know that in this novel we have total control over the lives of citizens by the called party big brother, this tries to accustom the citizens to obey without thinking. In this context, dreams and thoughts are canceled because they controlled, these are replaced with false truths and forcefully imposed as “2 + 2 = 5”.
2)April, for Chausar, is considered moth of regeneration for the soul, linked to the spring, to the nature’s ribirth and so it has positive connotations.
On the contrary, for Eliot and Orwell this month don’t have previous features; for Eliot, April and the spring returns to mind old memories; for Orwell, in his book 1984, how to sing radiohead “January has April’s showers” in that it is the big brother and the state to impose the rules to society, and in this case in April does not have the positive connotations of beauty and spring, but, on the contrary, cold and winter in January. Big brother laid his own rules, and did believe the things people opposed and absurd as 2 + 2 = 5, according to the title of the song.
-Resistance
1-2)we are in the near future: the year 1984. The company is managed by a single party led by big brother, is he who commands and everywhere in the city are hung big propaganda posters depicting Big Brother, with the caption “Big Brother is watching you.” in this context we have two Julia and Winston Smith characters who, despite the party just wants relations for procreation, they fall in love. Big Brother, with O’Brien, will submit the two leads to physical and psychological torture in which neither of them will know if he can keep the secret or not.The text of the Muse refers precisely to this: try to resist, to go beyond the party, the big brother, to maintain their love safe, or not?
-Uprising
1-2-3) The party keep hidden the truth as manage all media and information networks, so they tell us only what is best for them to let us know, to indoctrinate and dominate us; with “With all the green belts wrapped around our minds” they probably refers to the belts that carry the Masons at their meetings. Belt that imprisoned the mind. The big brother have infiltrated in all the right political party and left and in this way with the elections we only give the illusion of choice, because you votes on the right or on the left are always voting for them. It’s like choosing something between apple juice and apple juice. Whatever you choose, you choose them, you choose the Big Brother. The “red tape” remembers society’s limits, the tape after which there is an absolute truth that can be accessed only by the party.
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”2+2=5”
1)The lines express the people’s idea according the totalitarianism that is the government’s form shown in Orwell’s novel , they have to believe that the world where they live is the best and the safest one.
2)It states the people’s alienation make them blind and unable to see the differences present in the world like the difference between April , that was considered by Chaucer a month of rebirth of nature and soul , and January , that has a positive connotation for Eliot because is in winter and this is considered the best season because the snow covered the past ‘memories .
”Resistance”
Because it tell of secret love story like the one presents in 1984 between Wiston and Julia that are forced to hide their relationship because the Big Brother controls the people’s privacy and allows the relationship between man and woman only to procreate.
”Uprising”
1)Those lines are a clear reference to the fact that all the dictatorship to have the favor of people hide the truth and through the media make them look good and close to the people , like the Big Brother who publicize a continues war against the other countries make form government to protect the civilians.
2)The entire life of people is controlled by the Big Brother , also their thoughts and their feelings like the two minutes hate where the people can express their hatred against the party’s enemies.
3)The ”endless red tape” is a metaphor of the large numbers of law applied by the Big Brother to rule the people life in every particular like the one that reduce the words allow to make more difficult express an own opinion for the people.
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•2+2=5
The first four lines, seems to be a part of a
dialogue between two persons, the first one who is
resigned to the power, to the authority, he doesn’t
find a way to escape out from it, so he accept the
consequences, till to lose his rationality,
accepting, for example, that ‘2+2=5’. Instead, the
second one, have still hope, hope that he could
change the things, that he could ‘put the world to
rights’, this character could be associated to
Winston Smith, a character of Orwell’s novel, but
in the novel we see that although the efforts of
Winston, trying to let people see what has became
the party, and the way that it enslaved people, He
doesn’t reach his aim, because he was caught and,
through torture, constricted to accept the rules of
the party, symbolic, is the moment in which he
accept that ‘2+2=5’. About symbolism, we have also
the reference to April, that in past was used by
other author, like for example, Chaucer, tha
described it with positive connotation, because of
the re-birth of nature, that is linked also to an
internal re-birth, of the thoughts, for example. In
this instance, i think that the Eliot’s conception
is closer to the atmosphere that wanted to create
the author. For Eliot in fact April is ‘the
cruelest month’, because it let memories to emerge
from ‘the ground when the snow melts’.
•Resistance
The link between the song, and the Orwell novel’s
plot, regards the tragical love story present in
the novel, between Winston and Julia. Togheter
tried to fought the system, to resist the parties,
but although the great force of either, at the end,
after months and months of torture, they betray the
one with the other, although their big love. The
line tells the night in which they were arrested
from police, because of their illegal relationship,
in their secret hiding place, or better what thay
thought to be secret and safe, because we see that
also this place was under control of ‘Big Brother’.
•Uprising
Whit the first three lines, the artist want us to
know how the party act, in fact, they did every
thing possible for leave people in the obscurity of
their ignorance, in fact one motto of the party was
“Ignorance is freedom”. Ignorance, in fact, is the
base of slavery in this instance. Both slavery and
ignorance, were symbolized in the song, with the
“green belt” and “red tape”. Both and help to
clarify the sense of oppression and limitation to
which people were subjected, because they didn’t
think other if not was what party states, they
didn’t have relationship not allowed, they didn’t
knew the thruth, they lost completely their
personality.
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1.1984 is a novel written by George Orwell, in the last part of novel, Winston smith that is a sort of ‘rebel’, says that 2+2=5 despite he know that isn’t true.
2.In the novel we can find the period ‘ it was a bright cold day in april ‘, that we find also in the song. We can associate the theme of months with T.S Eliot and Chaucer. Chaucer beacuse associate april with the regeneration of soul, Eliot , instead uses this month to indicate the negative aspect of reality.
1-2. It’s possible associate the novel with song. Infact the song telling of a couple: Winston and Julia that but The Big Brother didn’t accept love if not for the procreation and than only for sex. They are discovered and tortured physically and psychologically.
1. In the novel, Winsotn is a member of Ministry of truth, an istitution create for rewrite the history and Winston rewrite the historical documents to adapt the truth of BB.
2.I think that it’s refer to money. Money are green and Cristopher McCandless in ‘Into the wild’ said that money make people cutious. Money influenced our lifes, our thoughts and for me that is the line around our minds.
3. Red tape is a sort of wall. Behind this wall there is the really true and not the appareance. But like the myth of prometeus of Plato, it’s really hard skip this wall.
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1)In the fourth line we can find a dialogue between two men.The first wanted the change of society and the second wanted to stay at home,that represented the society governed by a party.So we have a reference to Orwell because “Home is where two and two always makes up five”
2)This is a second reference to Orwell.Many authors think that April is a month of regeneration of the soul and nature and so acquires a positive connotation.But after in 1984 April have a negative connotation,because Orwell described people alienated.
3-4) the lines of Lirycs was refered to the plot of novel, infact we can find the two characters Wiston and Giulia,that fell in love and after they were discovered.
5-6-7)the text of this song wanted
to emphasize the type of society in 1984 , where people were controlled by the Party.”Green “word was a metaphor related to the restriction of the mind used by big brother .
“the red tape” was a veil behind which hides we find the truth and this concept was linked to two philosophers Kant and shopenhauer.
in kant we find the difference between noumenon that was the truth while the phenomenon is the reality.
In Shopenhauer we can find the concept of “veil of Maia”.
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1 in the first four lines we have a sort of dialogue between two men. the dreamer that wanted to change the society and the other the wanted to stay at home in the society governed by a party .In this way we have a referance to Orwell because home is “where two and two always makes up five”
2 it is anothe referance to Orwell. For many authors april was a month of rebirth and rigeneration ,rigeneration of nature and so rigeneration of soul.In 1984 this month aquires a negative connatation because in the society descibed by orwell we have only alienation
3-4 the lines of lyrics are refered to the plot of the novel because we have the presence of two characters thatt fall in love but they are discovered and tortured psicologically and phisically
5-6-7the lines of this song are linked to the society of 1984 because in this kind of society people are controlled by the party in general way,” green belts wrapped around our minds” it is a sort of methaphor that it is linked to the restriction of knwledge used by big brother . While “red tape” is a sort of veil beyond there is the truth and this concept is linked to two important philosophers kant and schopenhauer.in kant we have the distinction between phenomenon ,the reality, and noumenon that is the truth.Instead schopenhauer talks about ” velo di maya”
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1) In the novel 1984 we have a dictatorship in the society that affect also people mind. Winston Smith that is the protagonist of the novel is smarter than the actual society and understands what’s going on there. But in the end, through various tortures the dictature reaches its target to divert his thinking on its way.
2)We can find an association between the verse and Chaucer or T.S. Elliot.
Chaucer thinks that april is the month of regeneration of souls Elliot sustain the theory that april is the cruellest month and that winter is better.
1bis)We can associate the songs with 1984. The two lovers can be Winston and Giulia, but their love isn’t allowed by the dictature of the Big Brother.
1) The word truth can be linked to Winston that works in the minister of truth.
2) The green belts are banknotes that divert our thoughts. They are the inivsible hand that set our decisions.
3)The red tape can be linked to a wall that separate normal people from people that belongs to the party
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1) In the first four lines we can find a kind of dialogue beetween two people. One wants in a some way to change the reality and the other want to adapt to the life that is forced to live because in relashonship to 1984 we can find a period where everything was private, the freedom of expression follow precise laws because as in the “big brother”.
2) April is a month that is treated in the works of many artists. Eliot uses this month to indicate negative aspect of reality. For the poet the winter is the season that protects people. “2+2=5 is an example to demonstrate the resignation of the people to the totalitarian regime.
1-2) the protagonist of Novel is wiston smith . Beside him act two other caracters: julia Who is in love with wiston and o brien a senior official that the protagonist beliebed friend. Winston and julia become lovers and decide to secretely cooperate with the underground resistance organization called “brotherhood”. O brien discover that and torture them in room 101, o brien submit them to their worst nightmare their love falters and collapses proving not so stringo anymore
1-2-3) the lines of the song are linked to the society of 1984 a society where the people are controllate e by government. For This reason everyone didn’t express his idea, people are controlled by mass media that tell us only what is most convenient to them. The limits of the society a te rappresentated by methaphor of the green belts wropped around our minds
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Radiohead ‘s song is connected with the novel 1984 and we can see In the first four lines of radiohead’s song a dialog between a party’s member and a dreamer.
The party’s member explains that the dreamer had better to comform himself with the party’s ideals and researching the other rights or freedom is not the right way .This society destroyed people’s ability to think differently and in order to live in peace we have to be ignorant and think what society impose.
In Chaucer’ s conception April is the month of the regeneration of the mind and of the soul but Eliot and Orwell give a negative connotation because people are alienated and oppressed by society and this causes a deep agony.
In Muse’s song “Resistance” , love is a way we could rebell to the society’s oppression. This concept is inspired by Orwell ‘s novel “1984” where two
lovers , Winston and Julia try to creat a little space where they could be free by party’s control . Winston rented a flat where they believed and hoped their love promise could survive and where they could expless their thoughts about society and about the party.
Their hopes were destroyed by the “thought police” controlled by the party , who followed all their movement and actions and thanks to O’Brien , they imprisoned Winston.
Winston didn’t resist under torture and he preferred to sacrifice Julia instead of himself so the party win against love .
In Upresing’s refrain the Muse encourage people to open our minds and fight against ignorance in order to destroy the walls and the limits that society impose to us and that make impossible to find the truth. The world is full of empty people who’s minds this villain society stuff of ill ideals.
“Green belts wrapped around our minds ” is the sentence that symbolizes the way in which the system blocks people thoughts. In “1984” the belts where represented by the thought police, the ministry of love ,the ministry of truth and of peace , who put the limits to people’s minds.
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ORWELL: 1984
2 + 2 = 5 :
1 ) “ Are u such a dreamer to put the world to rights ? “
If we take into account the novel 1984 we can assert that the “ dreamer “ is “ the last man “ Winston Smith since he thinks to be able to change the system by rebelling against the Party but he doesn’t know this is only an illusion , a dream ;he will pay with his life his opposition to the Party and finally he submits to the Big Brother saying that 2 + 2 = 5 . We can say that Winston is the metaphor of the “ resignation “ of people to the totalitarian regime which controls all the minds according all the points of view . Orwell wants to put in evidence that in a totalitarian society every opposition will be punished and there is no way in order to escape from this reality .
2 ) We can say that for Orwell April acquires a negative connotation ,it has a cold atmosphere , since there is no possibility to have regeneration , to solution in the society like the one described , where people lose every human characteristic becoming “ machines “ , “ puppets “ in the hands of the ones who are to the power ; people are alienated , they behave no more their freedom and they have to conform to the ideologies and values imposed by the Party .
We can make a comparison with Eliot because he talks about this month in a negative way too . ( April is the cruelest month …the Burial of the Dead ) . According to the poet April has a negative connotation ; in fact since it is the month of the regeneration of the nature and the soul , it regenerates also the memories of the fertility of the past and the desires of the men who are alienated ,so this regeneration makes them understand their “ paralyzed “ and “ alienated “ condition . Winter instead is seen in a positive way because it is the “ steril season “ ,nothing regenerates , it protects men from the memory and the desire of return to the past .
RESISTANCE :
1-1 ) If we consider the novel of Orwell we can say that the lines refer to the love story between Winston and Julia who show their opposition to the Party . They have a love affair but this choice is dangerous for their lives and there are aware of it .The couple meet for the first time in a wood in order to escape from the Big Brother ‘s control that prevents the free love ( sex had to be only a way to procreate and not a pleasure ); then they chose another place in order to avoid suspiciouses , so Winston rents a room in the antique shop of Mr Charrington ; they believe they are in a secret and safe place but they misguide because they are discovered by the police which arrest them . Both Winston and Julia are tortured in the so called Ministry of Love .
UPRISNG :
1 ) According to my opinion the first three lines of Uprising want to underline the “ brainwashing “ operated by the system .
The word “ truth “ acquires a very important meaning .The line “ They hope that we will never see the truth around “ expresses the fact that the system rests its strength on people’s ignorance ( IGNORANCE IS STRENGHT ) . The system keeps us away from the truth hidden behind the “ false truth “ in order to brainwash all the minds in the most simple way , without any effort , hoping that people see the reality for what they want it to be and not as it actually is . ( the idea that 2+2 =5 symbolizes this “ unreality “ , this “ fake truth “ that the system makes the society believe as the “ real truth “ ) . The concept of the “ false reality “ ( appearance ) and the “ true reality “ ( noumeno ) is treated by the german philosopher Schopenhauer . According to him it is necessary breaking the so called “ veil of Maya “ in order to grab the true reality .
The lines : “ They will not force us , they will stop degrading us , they will not control us , we will be victorious “ underline the possibility of a ransom by this situation . I agree with this optimistc vision , in fact according my opinion we can defeat the system and change the reality only if there is enough courage , strength and determination to do it .( if we want it , we can do it ! )
2 )According to my opinion ,the line “ green belts wrapped around our minds “ refers to the act of forging the minds , to the mental constriction , to the “ brainwashing “ operated by the system in order to make the society believe in its ideologies and values .This important theme is in Orwell’s novel in which he puts in evidence the psychological pressure of the society and the huge power of the system that in every case will win against every threat of opposition . (we can make a comparison with William Blake who uses the metaphor “ mind forged manacles “ putting in evidence the lack of freedom of human minds which are no more able to think and image because of the external impositions in the industrialized city of London ) . We can find this situation also in the modern society which is tied to the external impositions of the system although this “ constrictions “ are indirect . People don’t have enough strength and courage to rebel to this “ orders “ coming from the external world and to change things ; they are no more human being but “ puppets “ to brainwash ; we can say that the contemporary society is paralyzed such as the one described by Joyce in “ Dubliners “ .
3 ) In reference to 1984 , the “ red tape “ can be seen as the metaphor of the politic power of the Party that hides the “ real truth “. ( like the red tape can be seen as a sort of shield since it does not allow the direct contact with the ground , so the Party is the “ red shield “ because it does not allow the society the direct contact with the true reality ) .
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1)In the first lines of this song there are two people Who are talking about the dream and the possibility of changing the reality. Infact it is what winstonsmith, the leading character in the Novel 1984, tries to do. He is against a society in which a political dictatorship rules. And in wich there is no privacy due to a figure called Big Brother.
2)some other poets have mentioned the month of april. For example Eliot in ” the burial of dead” or “chancer in Canterbury tales”
3-4)The connection with Orwell’s Novel is given by the couple Winston and Julia who arte in love with each other but they decided to go against the laws of that time that wanted people to be togheter only for procreation purposes. So, they escape to a hidden place, but they will be soon discovered and tortured in order to test their love.
5)The first 3 lines of the lyricks refered to the fact that the Big Brother didn’t want people to know the truth. But Winston Who is an emplayee of the ministery of truth has the task to rewrite the historical documents and let the truth.
6)I think that it is refered to the fact that the Big Brother tryed to make people less and less free of expressing their own opinions and knowledge
7)The red tape might represent the simble of the border that people can’t traspass in order to get to truth.
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1-1) We may combine these four lines to the words of O’Brien in the interrogation to W.Smith. In fact Smith is the dreamer who wanted to change the system and O’Brien tortures him until he said that 2+2=5.
2) “January has April’s showers”
in Orwell this two months are united among them. They had a negative connotation because they represented the monotony. Also for Eliot april is a negative month.
3) Julia and Smith represent the characters of the resistance in opposition to Big Brother that decided weddings and created love. in fact they found a secret room where they could love each other freely but they were discovered and tortured because of their love.
1-2) this three lines are referred to a conformist system where the government through the use of the media directs all people to have a uniform thought hiding in this way the “truth” and limiting knowledge and freedom.
3) “red tape” symbolizes the limit of knowledge that society can never reach because of big brother.
"Mi piace""Mi piace"