In the novel 1984, George Orwell creates Oceania, the futuristic setting for Big Brother’s Oligarchy, which controls it is people by fear, propaganda, and the constant threat of war. Freedom and Individuality are missing in Oceania; the settings oppressive mood represents the people’s anxiety, anger, and fear of Big Brother’s control. Orwell focuses on three connecting government locations. That Big Brother controls, these are the Ministry’s, Victory Mansion’s, and Air Strip One, also known as London. Setting in 1984 consist of two of the four major Ministries’, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Truth. The Ministry of love’s main purpose is to keep law and order through fear, repression and by brainwashing the citizens of Oceania. The exterior of the Ministry of Love strikes fear into everyone that sees it; it is a large concrete pyramid structure, with no windows. It hides between guarded outpost, barbed wire, and machine gun pods. Winston thinks about …show more content…
You are forced to live in, "old flats, built in 1930 thereabouts and were falling in pieces." (2/2/1) Shows us that the people are living in such poor conditions, which even a 54-year-old building is falling apart a bit by bit. It shows us the failure of Big Brother to provide a living space for its citizens that it is even liveable. Big Brother does not even care if its citizens live or die; Big Brother only cares about having power, and total control of Oceania. The interior of Victory Mansions, it is shown as, " The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats" (3). Victory Mansion it is shown as a place where there are broken windows, no heating, electricity in the daytime, and plumbing hardly works, which makes it smell like cabbage, and old rag mats. Victory mansion is a dump, where u live if u work for the government as an outer party member, where they are made to think of doublethink that they are living in victorious living