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Anveshak (UGC CARE GROUP 1), 2022
George Orwell's 1984 is a scathing criticism of a totalitarian regime in the post-colonial world.... more George Orwell's 1984 is a scathing criticism of a totalitarian regime in the post-colonial world. This work has inspired a world of new terminologies, assessments, and criticisms in both academic and popular cultures. In his work, Orwell presents a very grim picture of the future of the nation-states, which acts as a disturbing fable, an analogy to the present realities, and a prophecy for the future. How can we situate a text written right after the Second World War in a post-modern, post-truth world? How relevant is this work in modern times? And how can we analyze the ideological, socio-cultural and political world of 1984? This particular essay will try to understand the discourse of power, control, and discipline through Foucauldian lenses. We will try to understand the semblance between Orwell's visualization of the 'Big Brother' with that of 'Discipline and Punishment' and the panoptic structure of surveillance through telescreen. So how technology can be used as a mode of surveillance and power is a common theme in both Orwell's and Foucault's works. We will also discuss the possible spaces for resistance in a totalitarian state as envisaged by the protagonist of our story Winston and the popular dictum of Foucault, "Where there is Power, there is Resistance."
Anveshak (UGC CARE GROUP 1), 2022
George Orwell's 1984 is a scathing criticism of a totalitarian regime in the post-colonial world.... more George Orwell's 1984 is a scathing criticism of a totalitarian regime in the post-colonial world. This work has inspired a world of new terminologies, assessments, and criticisms in both academic and popular cultures. In his work, Orwell presents a very grim picture of the future of the nation-states, which acts as a disturbing fable, an analogy to the present realities, and a prophecy for the future. How can we situate a text written right after the Second World War in a post-modern, post-truth world? How relevant is this work in modern times? And how can we analyze the ideological, socio-cultural and political world of 1984? This particular essay will try to understand the discourse of power, control, and discipline through Foucauldian lenses. We will try to understand the semblance between Orwell's visualization of the 'Big Brother' with that of 'Discipline and Punishment' and the panoptic structure of surveillance through telescreen. So how technology can be used as a mode of surveillance and power is a common theme in both Orwell's and Foucault's works. We will also discuss the possible spaces for resistance in a totalitarian state as envisaged by the protagonist of our story Winston and the popular dictum of Foucault, "Where there is Power, there is Resistance."