Stylistic Device
Imagery:
Distinct details are used in order for the reader to successfully create an image in one 's mind thus allowing the reader to feel the tone the descriptions are trying to convey. One dismal morning as Winston’s consistent routine commenced he walked into the canteen where breakfast took place "He looked around the canteen. A low ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes" (Orwell 59). The descriptions consistently …show more content…
The story starts off with Winston told to be a fearless and rebellious male who successfully strays from conformity. Winston wondered “Whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one”, since he could not outly speak of the passionate hate he held against the Party and the rebellious acts he contemplated of initiating. There had been a moment in society where it was a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong” (Orwell 80). Winston was starkly different from other individuals in the society he lived in because he maintains his own human spirituality, the single thing that is broken in everyone else by the party. Winston separates himself from most of the citizens in Oceania by acquiring the ideas of rebellious acts which he soon take into action. Winston’s first act in defiance of the Party was the purchase of a diary which in he wrote his displeased feelings towards the Party’s repressing tactics. This very simple act was so minor yet so significant because it both displayed his fearlessness and rebelliousness. It is important to notice that he already took an act of rebellion the moment he acquired the thoughts of it, …show more content…
He was taken from Julia and imprisoned to the Ministry of Love where he tries his best to keep the brave face he has held for so long, up until he was sent to the dreaded Room 101. No too long after, he was faced with rats: his worst fear, breaking him and making him scream out loud "Do it to Julia! 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. Not me! Julia! Not me” (Orwell 289)! sacrificing his love, Julia, in means to save himself. Betrayed by O’Brien, Winston was left in paranoia and began to see that his works of rebellion weren’t worth all the pain and effort as a result. Winston betrays his original self and praises Big Brother and lives a conformed life believing that everything “was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Orwell 300). Winston’s development is significant because he went from a rebellious and brave man to a solidified member of the Party. While, this change turns for the worse for himself because he has lost his bravery and rebellious ideals. The outcome may seem tragic but on the bright side the government running Oceania gets one less rebel in
Imagery:
Distinct details are used in order for the reader to successfully create an image in one 's mind thus allowing the reader to feel the tone the descriptions are trying to convey. One dismal morning as Winston’s consistent routine commenced he walked into the canteen where breakfast took place "He looked around the canteen. A low ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes" (Orwell 59). The descriptions consistently …show more content…
The story starts off with Winston told to be a fearless and rebellious male who successfully strays from conformity. Winston wondered “Whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one”, since he could not outly speak of the passionate hate he held against the Party and the rebellious acts he contemplated of initiating. There had been a moment in society where it was a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong” (Orwell 80). Winston was starkly different from other individuals in the society he lived in because he maintains his own human spirituality, the single thing that is broken in everyone else by the party. Winston separates himself from most of the citizens in Oceania by acquiring the ideas of rebellious acts which he soon take into action. Winston’s first act in defiance of the Party was the purchase of a diary which in he wrote his displeased feelings towards the Party’s repressing tactics. This very simple act was so minor yet so significant because it both displayed his fearlessness and rebelliousness. It is important to notice that he already took an act of rebellion the moment he acquired the thoughts of it, …show more content…
He was taken from Julia and imprisoned to the Ministry of Love where he tries his best to keep the brave face he has held for so long, up until he was sent to the dreaded Room 101. No too long after, he was faced with rats: his worst fear, breaking him and making him scream out loud "Do it to Julia! 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. Not me! Julia! Not me” (Orwell 289)! sacrificing his love, Julia, in means to save himself. Betrayed by O’Brien, Winston was left in paranoia and began to see that his works of rebellion weren’t worth all the pain and effort as a result. Winston betrays his original self and praises Big Brother and lives a conformed life believing that everything “was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Orwell 300). Winston’s development is significant because he went from a rebellious and brave man to a solidified member of the Party. While, this change turns for the worse for himself because he has lost his bravery and rebellious ideals. The outcome may seem tragic but on the bright side the government running Oceania gets one less rebel in