Victory Mansions

The book 1984 was written by George Orwell and was published in 1949.During this time period, World War had just ended and was written as a warning to his readers to ensure that the society presented in the novel would never exist. Orwell dedicated his novel to his personnel experience living under the authority of a totalitarian government. The book focuses mainly on the Winston’s Smith’s opposition of the government and Winston’s quest to discover the truth about the past in a society where facts are manipulated to benefit the inner party. Throughout the narrative, George Orwell uses an abundance of similes, vivid imagery, symbolism, and irony to present the possible themes of manipulation, exclusive governmental authority and disparity in

For instance, Orwell presented his first act or irony in the introductory page of the novel. Winston Smith lived in “Victory Mansions” which had a living environment quite contrary to its name. With the name of “Victory Mansions” one would expect a lavish lifestyle where everything associate with the apartment would be luxurious and up to par. In actuality, “the hallways smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats” and “…at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours,” (5). Also the Party’s slogan can be interpreted as irony as well “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (7). When a person thinks of war, they usually associate war with tumult and death. not peace. Freedom is usually associate with an individual’s desire to act as he or she pleases, but in in the society that is describe in the novel the people where never really free since everything they did were closely being monitored and could possibly lead to their vaporization. Ignorance is living in oblivion and as long as one is ignorant of a situation he or she will always remain under the control of someone else. Ignorance is of individuals of that society give the government complete control. George Orwell also uses Big Brother in a way that it is considered ironical as well. In a way a “Big Brother” is supposed to protect his younger sibling, the people in political terms,

Through the novel, Gorge Orwell presents Big Brother to symbolize the dictator of the government. Big Brother is a theoretical political figure the government use to gain complete control of the citizen in Winston’s society. Big Brother is the “God” of that society and if one does not worship him one he or is sentenced to death. However, since Winston disproves of the way the society is structure his start to write in his journal “Down with Big Brother” which symbolized his inner frustrations. Winston also starts having about his mother and sister and talking with older proletarians which in a way symbolized Winston’s strong desire to reconnect with the past and understand what drastic changes had taken place from that time to his present. Then, Julia someone who Winston displayed a strong sense of hatred toward in the beginning, manifested her love for him by slipping him a note right in front of a telescreen. Julia and the room above Mr. Charringotn’s then became Winston’s escape from his thought and the government After several sexual encounters with Julia Winston no longer need to drink his gin and his varicose ulcer seem to has vanished. The drinking of gin and Winston’s varicose also symbolized Winston’s stress and sexual frustrations since his lived in a society where the natural sex instinct was created into something more an obligation and a process. Also the never ending war