The “Dark Power of Destiny” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
@article{Carpentier2014TheP,
title={The “Dark Power of Destiny” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four},
author={Martha C. Carpentier},
journal={Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature},
year={2014},
volume={47},
pages={179 - 194}
}Applying a Lacanian approach to Orwell’s narrative strategies in Nineteen Eighty-Four, this essay analyzes the protagonist’s attempt to evade the Symbolic by resurrecting archaic memories of preoedipal union through a repetitive triadic play of signifiers. Engaging Freud and Deleuze, the essay views his masochistic behaviour as a challenge to patriarchy via identification with the feminized position.
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