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English Essay: Setting In Nineteen Eighty-Four In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell uses setting to create an atmosphere which helps to emphasise the themes of the story. He portrays a world filled with oppression, fear and vulnerability. The images in the story have a heavy impact, showing the extent to which the Party controls the populus. Orwell uses setting as an effective tool in conveying the Party’s destruction of basic human freedoms: both psychological and physical. Along the way we are introduced to important ideological concepts such as thoughtcrime and doublethink. Orwell introduces us to Winstone Smith, an “everyman” of the Nineteen Eighty-Four society in the paradoxical “Victory Mansions”. Despite the name, they are “rotting vistas of the twentieth century” in a perpetual bad state of repair. They are dirty and grimy – “The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats”. The reader instantly sees the impoverished conditions in which Winstone lives. In contrast to the dirty Victory Mansions, the “glittering white concrete” of Winstone’s workplace, the Ministry of Truth, rises out of the colourless slums of the city. Inside, thousands of workers work on the Revisionism, the revising of all documents from the past which contain any material that could damage the Party’s absolute power.
Approximate Word count = 772
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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