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Ethos Pathos And Logos In George Orwell's '1984'

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Grace Edwards 4/4/23 Period 2 English 10 H 1984 Final The strength it takes to follow society is minimal, but the strength to create change is unbearable. In George Orwell’s 1984, Oceania is harshly watched and controlled by, what they call “the party” or “big brother,” a profoundly communist government that allows for no individuality or even freedom is thought/speech. Due to this controlling society, my advertisement allows Winston to promote awareness of the party’s power and control over everyone in society. Winston conveys the clear message to beware of the ‘eyes’ of the party, enforcing the slogan “big brother is watching you. Winston promotes this awareness towards the other rebels of the party and general people to overall spread his knowledge and hopefully influence revolt. While …show more content…

To promote this awareness of the party’s power, Winston had to be to the point but also have an awe-inspiring view. I used different rhetorical devices to achieve this view. In this propaganda poster, the obvious and dead-center image of the eye allows for the “eyes of the party” slogan to be enforced. This imagery of the ‘eye’ conveys the control that the party has over society; allowing Winston to create awareness and potentially spark a revolt against this control. In Winston’s advertisement, he majorly enforces the repeated phrase, “Beware of Big Brother.” This bolded phrase in the advertisement not only draws attention to the phrase but also uses alliteration, in the repetition of the letter ‘B’, to make this phrase more memorable to the audience. This allows Winston to enforce the idea of the power-hungry party’s control over society, therefore, spreading awareness to “Beware” of the party and its influence. In the eye of the poster, the phrase “rebel in silence” is promoted. This use of juxtaposition with the two contradicting things of rebelling

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