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1984 George Orwell Poster Analysis

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Posters and Subconscious In George Orwell’s 1984, Orwell uses personification to emphasize the subconscious control the government possesses over the citizens’ vicious actions against the party’s enemy through the Eurasian soldier poster. A new Eurasian picture, which Orwell portrays as monstrous, expressionless, and enormous Mongolian faces, emerges all over London and the image outnumbers the posters of Big Brother. Strangely enough, the proles, normally apathetic about the war, elicit a powerful, aggressive, and patriotic response towards the new poster. Orwell utilizes negative descriptive word choices, such as monstrous, to illustrate how negatively people of Oceania view Eurasians. Since the party is at war with Eurasia, the Mongolian
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