The story 1984 is a wonderful tale of government corruption, violence and love. The book is packed full of different literary elements that makes it.
1984 is full of different symbols one of the symbols that pops up in the book is Rats. Rats are a symbol for Winston’s deepest, darkest, most horrendous fears. “He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats” (Orwell 359). This shows how fearful he is of the rats, eventually he sees himself as apart of the disgusting rats. “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her tear her face off, strip her to the bones” (Orwell 96). This also shows how terrified he is of the filthy rats. Julia is Winston’s lover and he is so terrified …show more content…
There are many charecters that play a major roll in the story 1984, like Juilia and big brother. However I belive that the main character of the book is Winston, who is faced with many difficult situations throughout the novel. “It was though some huge force were pressing down upon you. Something that …show more content…
A motif is a reoccurring symbol with meaning in the plot of the story. There are many motifs in the book 1984 that occur often in the book. “All that was needed was a unending series of victories over your own memory. Reality control, they called it in newspeak “Double think” (Orwell 101). Double think is a major motif in this story double think is basically the governments way of inducing mind control on people. They control minds in many different ways weather it’s through torture, the media, or heavy propaganda. Another motif is Big brother. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, the caption said while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own, down at the street another poster, torn at one corner flapped fitfully in the wind” (Orwell 2). This textual evidence reveals to different motifs. The first one it portraits is Big brother who is basically a symbol for the government that controls the area that Winston currently resides in. The second motif that is shown in this quote is modern decay. The whole entire city that Winston lives in is going through extreme decay and that in itself is a symbol of Winston’s life. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Dickstein 2) This is a quote from the party. This text is an examples of the common motif of mind control. The quote is important to the book because it is an example of the reoccurring symbol that is mind control in the book. They are
1984 is full of different symbols one of the symbols that pops up in the book is Rats. Rats are a symbol for Winston’s deepest, darkest, most horrendous fears. “He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats” (Orwell 359). This shows how fearful he is of the rats, eventually he sees himself as apart of the disgusting rats. “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her tear her face off, strip her to the bones” (Orwell 96). This also shows how terrified he is of the filthy rats. Julia is Winston’s lover and he is so terrified …show more content…
There are many charecters that play a major roll in the story 1984, like Juilia and big brother. However I belive that the main character of the book is Winston, who is faced with many difficult situations throughout the novel. “It was though some huge force were pressing down upon you. Something that …show more content…
A motif is a reoccurring symbol with meaning in the plot of the story. There are many motifs in the book 1984 that occur often in the book. “All that was needed was a unending series of victories over your own memory. Reality control, they called it in newspeak “Double think” (Orwell 101). Double think is a major motif in this story double think is basically the governments way of inducing mind control on people. They control minds in many different ways weather it’s through torture, the media, or heavy propaganda. Another motif is Big brother. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, the caption said while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own, down at the street another poster, torn at one corner flapped fitfully in the wind” (Orwell 2). This textual evidence reveals to different motifs. The first one it portraits is Big brother who is basically a symbol for the government that controls the area that Winston currently resides in. The second motif that is shown in this quote is modern decay. The whole entire city that Winston lives in is going through extreme decay and that in itself is a symbol of Winston’s life. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Dickstein 2) This is a quote from the party. This text is an examples of the common motif of mind control. The quote is important to the book because it is an example of the reoccurring symbol that is mind control in the book. They are