THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to highlight the dehumanization of a man and the emptying of his divine essence from a transdisciplinary perspective. In the wider context of dehumanization, we want to show a parallel between the expressionist painting The scream, by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The ghostly silhouette screams to the unknown, her face is like a skull, a figure that Winston Smith would have at the end of the Orwellian dystopian narrative. We intend to show that Smith´s re-education led to the nullification of his being and the loss of his own identity. A face expresses our inner emotions, and its loss leads to the loss of our divine part.

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