Both Uses of
effigy
in
1984, by Orwell
- Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked.
p. 148.1effigies = crude dummies or representations of people to mock or abuse
- There were further angry demonstrations, Goldstein was burned in effigy,
p. 149.7 *burned in effigy = a symbolic manner (where they burned a dummy made to represent him)
Definition:
a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused