this idea is developed with the help of time and space organization given in the book. of the slogans of the Party in Oceania says: «Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past». Please answer my question: How does the Party control the past? (Possible answer: past events are constantly changing with the help of newspapers, films, television. The past vents described in these sources of information are changing and new information claims as truth)..: Right you are! Now you will read an episode from the novel «1984» where the process of altering of the past is described. Please pay your attention to linguistic means which specify time such as forms of the verb, adverbs and adjectives. Make notes during reading (Дод. В) .: Please answer my questions:
. On which day of Hate Week did the enemy of Oceania change? (On the sixth day).
. Why does the author of the novel try to focus our attention on this precise period of time? (He wants to show that for six long days full of hatred and rage to the enemy people were absolutely sure that this enemy was Eurasia and nothing else).
. When has the situation changed? How did it happen? (The situation changed at night during one of the demonstrations. The speaker had been proclaiming the speech for twenty minutes when he got to know that the enemy had changed. He simply said it to people without even breaking his speech).
. What did the crowd do? How much time did people spend to do it? (People thought that it was sabotage and within two or three minutes all posters and slogans decorating the square were destroyed).
. Which linguistic means does George Orwell use to show the immediate altering of the past? (The immediate altering of the past is shown with the help of adverbs and adjectives of time: at just this moment; with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once; the next moment; but within two or three minutes it was all over; one minute more , and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd; and with the help of forms of the verb (Past Indefinite and Past Perfect): «Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia»)..: As you can see the process of altering past events happens very quickly. Within several minutes people are convinced that their past had been always the same though it had changed only a moment before. And George Orwell skilfully used linguistic means to show short duration and irreversibility of this process. In this way people are deprived of their past. Everybody knows that a person who doesn t know his past can t build future. In the novel «1984» the Party doesn t allow people to remember their past thus taking away the possibility to change reality, to build their own future. Can we say that time becomes the weapon, the symbol in the hands of ruling class? (Yes, we can). What can time symbolise in the world created by George Orwell? How do you think? (Time symbolises power, unfreedom, inequality since only the upper, ruling class of people knows the true past of Oceania)..: We can make a conclusion that time in the novel «1984» serves as the symbol of power and helps to emphasise the main idea of ??the novel: the impossibility of freedom in the closed society..: Now we will focus on the specific features of different places where the main hero of the novel, Winston Smith, comes during the narration. You can see the scheme of Winston s movement on the blackboard ..: As we have already mentioned, Winston lives in a closed society where freedom of any kind is impossible. Now I suggest you to analyse the movement of the hero and find a place where he feels free if there is any. I ask you to make three teams. Each team has to focus on the descriptions of space given in a certain part of the novel: first team - part I; second team - part II, third team - part III. Your task will be to listen to the abstract from the text of the novel and to make a conclusion about the characteristic features of places described by answering the questions on cards. Now we will listen to the first abstract for the first team. And our first stop will be the Victory Mansions, the place where Winston lives. Listen to the description of this space. Please make notes while listening ..: Here, in this house and in this room Winston lives, this is his home. Home is a place where a person feels comfortable and secure, where he can be himself and do what he wants. now we will listen to the second abstract which describes the first meeting of Winston and Julia (Дод. Д) ..: This time the author shows us an open area. Can it be a place where freedom and happiness are possible? Our second team will think over this question later. And now we will listen to the last abstract for third team (Дод. Е).: You have cards with questions. P...
