Setting: The setting in 1984 contributes a lot to the way people live there lives in the book. Winston is living in Airstripone, which was once know as London (But no one really knows this), in the empire of Oceania. The part of the city he lives in is falling apart all around his. Nothing is clean and everything seems to fall apart and not work. But propaganda makes the citizens feel that life has never been better and the standard of living has improved from one year prior. The setting of the book contributes greatly to our view on how there society runs and how we understand them.
Language: The language in 1984 is always evolving. There are many members of there society that it is there job to publish new versions of there language. They have been working on the 11th editions of what they call newspeak, this edition is trying to limit the number of words people know so they can not have the ability to even come up with words that would produce thoughts. The government is doing this to control there people by limiting the amount they could learn. The main character Winston is against the controlling government and through language he shows us the world he is living in and how messed up it is. Without the different uses of language the reader would not be able to differ who is for or against the government.
Motif's: From the beginning of 1984 motif's appear, the most apparent motif is censorship, this is where the government that controls Winston and his fellow citizens by altering article and everything around them to make the government look good. Winston is in the department that alters everything that goes against the governments thinking at that time. They are altering the past to make it look like they have always been right. By doing this the government has a very firm grasp on there citizens and they have complete control over them and what they think. This leaves no room for anyone to rebel or to speak out against the government because if they did so they would not have any evidence to support there claim.
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