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‘The Nostalgia Effect’ occurs when people tend to recall the past more fondly than
the present. George Orwell’s novel 1984 and Mohsin Hamid’s movie The Reluctant
Fundamentlist invite the audience to examine the global issue “how nostalgia im-
pacts people during times of upheaval.” At different points in both the novel and the
movie, reader’s can draw different conclusions with respect to this issue. For 1984,
my chosen extract concentrates on the period when Winston starts recalling a fondly
remembered past, after having committed the first act of rebellion with Julia. For The
Reluctant Fundamentalist, my chosen extract focuses on the period when the CIA
arrests Changez. So,returning to my global issue, how does nostalgia impact people
during times of upheaval?
I will begin with my literary work, 1984. In the novel as a whole, there are many illus-
trations of nostalgia. Winston is shown to be meditating over the past world and col-
lecting antiques. In the early stages of the novel, Winston purchases a diary in order
to get his thoughts out of the way. Thoughts are based on the knowledge an individ-
ual has, therefore, thoughts are a medium to connect with the past and that is the
reason they’re illegal in Big Brother’s world. An initial writing in Winston’s diary says:
“..To a time when thought is free, to a time when truth exists.” Winston uses repeti-
tion of the phrase, “to a time” in order to emphasize that he hopes for a time like he
has witnessed in his childhood. The writing in his diary depicts nostalgia as it shows
he has a passion for the past which can be regarded as a longing for the Golden Age
which is an imaginary pastime of peace, prosperity and happiness.
Just before Winston's starts to rebel against the Party, Mr Charrington (a craft
store owner) , takes Winston to a room full of objects related to the past. As he
is looks around the room, he conveys his thoughts through the following use
of imagery: “It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a
room like this with no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly
ticking of the clock.”This illustrates an abstract idea which is nostalgia for a
concrete idea which itself is the room. The singing of the kettle and the
friendly ticking of the clock personify a feeling of having control over your own
life, something which Winston no longer has as a result of Big Brother’s total
control over society through TV screens. This again, showcases his love for
the past times where he had the chance to live how he wanted to live.
Towards the end of the novel, when Winston is caught by the Party, he thinks a lot of
the past and on one occasion remembers a time with his mother, “Unrecalled a
memory floated in his mind. His mother was sitting opposite him and also laughing.
For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together.” Here we have another
memory whereby Winston depicts nostalgia more than any other memory because
despite being brainwashed, he still thinks about the past with a desire to turn today’s
world into the world it was before. Orwell uses a paradox as despite the brainwash -
ing, Winston remembers the past with more clarity than he ever has. As the Party
converts rebellion into obedience, we can see obedience to the Party has been con-
verted into a subversive power (remembering what he has been longing to remem-
ber). This quote depicts nostalgia as Winston continues to be hopeful of a return to
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, the way things were despite knowing he will be tortured as a result of this thinking.
After the Party has done everything to brainwash Winston they release him but even
then, he is able to grasp memories of the past,
Zooming into the specific extract itself, Orwell establishes persistent symbols like the
glass paperweight, related to the charm of the past. It symbolizes to the audience the
attachment Winston holds to the past. The paperweight is emphasized during key
moments including the meetings between Julia and Winston. The coral is embedded
in the glass and cannot be touched which displays the obstacles such as the rewrit -
ing of the past between Winston and his connection to the past it, In my extract, in
the first few lines & I quote “It was a vast luminous dream … it all occurred in the
glass paperweight.” The quote symbolizes the glass paperweight as the medium
through which Winston remembers his past and he is attracted to the paperweight
because it represents the craftsmanship of the past since the party has banned the
making of items that incorporate beauty. The quote continues, from Line 4, “Inside
the dome, everything was covered with clear soft light. ” Light is an example of vis-
ual imagery which helps the reader imagine an angelic like light encompassing ev -
erything in the dome. Visual imagery is used by Orwell to signify that Winston asso-
ciates happiness with the past, in this instance through specific reference to the pa -
perweight.
In Oceania, the all-controlling Party doesn’t allow its members to be in love or to be
loyal to anyone but its symbolic leader, Big Brother. Winston misses having a real
family, people he can trust. In Line 7, he says, ‘’A gesture of the arm made by his
mother and made again thirty years later by the Jewish lady in a film he saw.”
Through the use of time and space, the gesture is the love and affection his mother
had given him. The memory of the disappearance of his mother , provokes him to
think about the proles and the fact that they remain human, despite the society in
which they live and this shows Winston’s nostalgia as he longs for freedom. The
mention of later seeing this love and affection in a movie, signifies the strength of
feeling that Winston has after such a long period of time and also that h these emo-
tions feel unreal to him. Moreover, the mention of a film by Orwell is made through
flashbacks in order to reveal new information about Winston and to keep the reader
engaged and interested. His mother is also an icon of a less oppressive world.
Further into the extract, Winston goes on to describe the social class he belonged to
and the deteriorating environment of the time. In reference to the war, he says, from
the end of Line 18 how, “He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances
of the time” Orwell uses allegory in order to illustrate to the audience the freedom
men had back in those days. He continues a couple of lines later with, “the gangs of
youths in shirts all the same colour, above all, the fact that there was never enough
to eat.“ Winston is giving an anecdote about his childhood. The use of an anecdote
helps him emotionally appeal to the reader for them to visualise how the world before
the totalitarian government was more peaceful and desirable, hence intensifying
Winston’s nostalgia.
I now intend to discuss “how nostalgia impacts people during times of upheaval” in
my non-literary body of work, the movie, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Changez,
the protagonist, is shown to be living in the past in many scenes. In the initial stages
of the movie, Changez does a voice-over to say: “He felt like he was entering New
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www.englishalanglit-inthinking.co.uk
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