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Published: 16.08.2011.
Language: English
Level: College/University
Literature: 10 units
References: Not used
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 1.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 2.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 3.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 4.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 5.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 6.
  • Research Papers 'Myth Making in the Novel "1984" by George Orwell and Foucault’s Pendulum by Umbe', 7.
Extract

The novel, anti-utopia by George Orwell 1984 uses myths on one hand and reflects the process during which myths are created on the other one. Also Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum does the same. But, the first task in order to analyze myths in some piece of art is to find out, what is understood by myth and what to search for. In Mythologies, Roland Barthes argues that no language use can be separated from structures of ideology and power (1984). …

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