The gaze theory in George Orwell’s 1984
Other Title(s)
نظرية التحديق في رواية 1984 لجورج أورويل
Author
Source
Academic Journal of Social and Human Sciences
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 20 ب قسم الآداب و الفلسفة (30 Jun. 2018), pp.16-24, 9 p.
Publisher
Benbouali Hassiba University of Chlef
Publication Date
2018-06-30
Country of Publication
Algeria
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Set in London thirty-five years in the future, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is surely one of the best known novels of the century.
The novel displays how the world has greatly changed.
It tackles sundry themes; among the major ones is the power of the gaze.
Set in a futuristic and totalitarian society, the novel demonstrates how the gaze, the notion of seeing and being seen, alternately works as a method of empowering and disempowering the individual.
The eyes hold the power to observe, to intimidate and to desire another person, and this power can be used to serve a purpose if used with intention and care.Through the novel, we sense that the power of the gaze manifests itself in diverse ways.
Relying on Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Laura Mulvey’s essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Irene Visser’s article “ReadingPleasure: Light in August and the theory of the gendered gaze”and Henry krips’ article “The politics of the Gaze: Foucault, Lacan and Zizek” as its main theoretical framework, this paper will mainly deal with how largely the power of the gaze is prensented in Nineteen Eighty-Four through various aspects.
It is within this framework of empowering and disempowering gazes that this novel provides the foundation for a literary analysis of the gaze.
The focal point of this analysis is to show how the gaze can both empower and disempower the protagonists within such a futuristic totalitarian regime they are bound to live in.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bin Talib, Ibtisam. 2018. The gaze theory in George Orwell’s 1984. Academic Journal of Social and Human Sciences،Vol. 2018, no. 20 ب قسم الآداب و الفلسفة, pp.16-24.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-906231
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bin Talib, Ibtisam. The gaze theory in George Orwell’s 1984. Academic Journal of Social and Human Sciences No. 20 ب قسم الآداب و الفلسفة (Jun. 2018), pp.16-24.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-906231
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bin Talib, Ibtisam. The gaze theory in George Orwell’s 1984. Academic Journal of Social and Human Sciences. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 20 ب قسم الآداب و الفلسفة, pp.16-24.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-906231
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 24
Record ID
BIM-906231