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Examples Of Foreshadowing In 1984 By George Orwell

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The dystopian novel, 1984, by George Orwell revolves around the plot of how the world would be if the government controls everything, even you as a person. Orwell used dreams, fears, and rhymes to foreshadow future events that will occur in this totalitarian society. Through the analysis of quotes regarding the three ways that Orwell used to foreshadow, we will understand the importance of foreshadowing in writing and in real life too. The first way that Orwell used to foreshadow in 1984 is through Winston’s dreams. In the very beginning of the story, Winston had a dream about O’ Brien and in the dream O’Brien tells him that they “shall meet in a place where there is no darkness” (Orwell 25). This one statement give the readers a hint that …show more content…

The first rhyme in the story is the Chestnut Tree one: “Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you and you sold me: / There lie they, and here lie we / Under the spreading chestnut tree” (Orwell 66). The line “I sold you and you sold me” tells the readers that there will be a betrayal happening. That betrayal that the readers find out later was Julia and Winston’s betrayal of each other when they were both prisoners at the Ministry of Love. The line “There lie they, and here lie we” foreshadows death and essentially both Julia and Winston are ‘dead’ since they can’t think, speak, or move on their own anymore. The second rhyme in the story is the St. Clement’s Church one. The last line of the rhyme is “Here come a chopper to chop off your head!” and it was repeated through the telescreen by Mr.Charrington when the Party came to arrest Julia and Winston (Orwell 121). If a person’s head is chop off, then the person is dead. Even though, Julia and Winston’s head wasn’t chopped off, but they lost the function of everything that a person with a head is suppose to be able to do: think, speak, and move, on their own. The actual last line to the church’s rhyme is “Chip chop Chip chop the last man is dead”, even though it wasn’t mentioned in the novel, but readers that knew the original rhyme will get the reference when O’Brien tells Winston: “If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man” in Room 101 (Orwell 222). If Winston is the last man, then he is dead, which again is what he essentially is at the end of the

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