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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Is produced later during his torture session?
(1) Does "is produced later" mean "reappeared later"?
(2) Does "his torture session" mean "when he was tortured (by O'Brien)"?
Context:
A document placed in the memory hole is supposedly transported to an incinerator from which "not even the ash remains". However, as with almost all claims made by the Party in this novel, the truth is left ambiguous and the reader is not told whether the documents are truly destroyed. For example, a photograph which Winston throws into one early in the novel
is produced later during his torture session by O'Brien, who then throws it back, moments later denying having any memory that the event had even occurred. This draws a direct parallel with the Party's general philosophy of doublethink, of which the memory hole is in a sense the physical embodiment; as the novel describes it, "to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again".
(2) Does "his torture session" mean "when he was tortured (by O'Brien)"?
Context:
A document placed in the memory hole is supposedly transported to an incinerator from which "not even the ash remains". However, as with almost all claims made by the Party in this novel, the truth is left ambiguous and the reader is not told whether the documents are truly destroyed. For example, a photograph which Winston throws into one early in the novel
is produced later during his torture session by O'Brien, who then throws it back, moments later denying having any memory that the event had even occurred. This draws a direct parallel with the Party's general philosophy of doublethink, of which the memory hole is in a sense the physical embodiment; as the novel describes it, "to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again".
Top answer
NL888 Does "is produced later" mean "reappeared later" More or less. It implies that the person who produced it had the photo, or knew where it was and could get it, and brought it out on purpose. You could say it means shown , or made available .
- NL888 Does "is produced later" mean "reappeared later" More or less.
- It implies that the person who produced it had the photo, or knew where it was and could get it, and brought it out on purpose.
- You could say it means shown , or made available .
- e.
- bring them to court and show them to the judge, the defendant, etc.
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NL888Does "is produced later" mean "reappeared later"More or less. It implies that the person who produced it had the photo, or knew where it was and could get it, and brought it out on purpose. You could say it means shown, or made available.
The judge ordered the plaintiff to produce the documents,
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Thanks.
Does "event" in "moments later denying having any memory that the event had even occurred" refer to "O'Brien's producing the photo and Winston's throwing it back"?
Does "event" in "moments later denying having any memory that the event had even occurred" refer to "O'Brien's producing the photo and Winston's throwing it back"?
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Yes. I think O'Brien produces the photo, then throws it in the incinerator, and then later denies any memory of the photo or what happened to it.
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