George Orwell uses similes and metaphors in his book 1984 in order to enrich the text and get his points across. He uses a simile saying, “The little sandy-haired woman had turned bright pink, and her mouth was opening and shutting like that of a landed fish,” which compares the girl to a land fish to show the movement of her mouth and how it is opening and closing to mimic a fish. Orwell used this to show how the people in the Two Minute Hate are screaming so loudly and how ridiculous they are acting up. He uses a metaphor saying, “It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheep-like quality.” This metaphor is comparing Goldstein to a sheep. Big Brother made Goldstein as dislikable as possible so the people would want
