Creamy In George Orwell's 1984

The simplest spark of dusk can be attractive to an artist’s perspective. George Orwell, who wrote the dystopian novel of 1984, asserts the literary device of defamiliarization to embed concrete information in each of his works. Does “creamy paper” (9) mean anything at all? Well, yes because readers often ponder how papers would usually be described as smooth, but ”creamy” is out of the ordinary. As a matter of fact, Orwell started out 1984 with “It was a bright cold day in April…” (5), which defamiliarize the combination of warm April and a terrifying setting. Besides, the protagonist, Smith Winston learns that betraying Big Boss and the Party will eventually bring him to the edge of the cliff in Winston’s time period. Big Brother, however, …show more content…
With doing so, Orwell configures ways to build the significance of defamiliarization by elaborating the four ministries really distinctly. However, these ministries are defamiliarized toward the readers because they mean the complete opposite. Orwell mentions “the Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, [...] Ministry of Peace, which concerned with war,[...]Ministry of love, which maintained law and order…[then] the Ministry of Plenty” (8), which was responsible for economic affairs. As the storyline continues through the novel, readers reticulate the meaning with the situation. Near the end, Winston and his lover, Julia get caught being “thought criminals”; so they went into the “Ministry of Love”, which both were “tortured” (225). At first, readers are able to view the Ministry of love as romantic; instead it turns out to be where “[The Party] shall crush [Winston] to the point from which there is no coming back” (210). It is ironic for Orwell to write about the Ministry of Peace which in fact base on wars, the Ministry of Truth deals with the disappearance of the past, Ministry of Love deals with torture, and how the Ministry of Plenty doesn’t explain the “eighty five per cent” are “proles” in starvation …show more content…
At the beginning of 1984, Orwell starts off with Syme introducing the new version of Newspeak, a dictionary that is revised to eliminate negative words often used. On the contrary, Newspeak defamiliarize how most individuals will view the world as limited. The problem with having “a word like ‘good,’ what need is there like ‘bad’”(45-46), shows how people can disconnect with society easily. Negative outputs will be taken away, but what if it’s the only way to communicate? For instance, if they come across the word, rape, would it simply be “ungood” (46)? Then, Orwell adds “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” (201). Orwell puts this quote all throughout 1984, but readers apprehend Orwell’s understanding as Winston discovering hope or the “golden country” (81). On the other hand, it turns out to be Winston stuck in the Ministry of Love, where “cold light [...] aching [for] morning or evening…” (186). Orwell elaborate more into Winston condition by using imagery as “disgusting running sore [...] stink like a goat [...] emaciation[...] neck like a carrot [...] eleven teeth left [...] hair coming out[...]skeleton” (224). Throughout 1984, Orwell reinforce strong diction to convey the sense of torture by O'Brien as he try to brainwashed Winston of “2+2=5”