Weblinks and videos for use with 12692 – Nineteen Eighty-Four: Activity Pack for AS and A Level OCR
Before-reading Activities
Background: Personal Politics
- Husband and Wife Relationships in the 1940s
- Golden age, apathy or stealth? Democratic engagement in Britain, 1945–1950
- Antisemitism in Britain
- Why I Write by George Orwell
Considering Genre: Dystopian Fiction
During-reading Activities
Part I: Chapters 4 and 5
- A Beginner’s Guide to Fundamental Principles of Marxism
- Orwell’s “1984” from Theoretical Views (An Essay)
Part II: Chapters 1 and 2
Part III: Chapter 3
Part III: Chapters 4 and 5
Part III: Chapter 6 and Appendix
- 1984 or 1998?
- What is the concept of doublethink and how does it relate to the themes in the novel?
- Doublethink: The Psychology of Fear, Trauma, and Denial in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Whole-text Activities
Context
- How did the Nazi consolidate their power?
- Stalinism
- The inter-war years: 1918-1939
- The Machine Stops by E M Forster
- The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Characterisation
Themes
Attitudes and Values
- The Holocaust Explained: Resistance, responses and collaboration
- All Quiet on the Western Front: Discipline, Camaraderie and Morale in the First World War
- A Brotherhood of Soldiers? Concepts of Comradeship 1914–1938
Writer's Use of Language
Critical Reception
- Orwell on the Future
- ‘In 1984… there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell’s utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years’ time.’
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, book of a lifetime
- Book Analysis Review: Nineteen Eighty-Four