1984 | Style
Point of View
Orwell’s 1984 is told in the third person, but the point of view is clearly Winston Smith’s. Through his eyes, readers are able to see how the totalitarian society functions, in particular how an individual deals with having illegal thoughts that can be detected easily by spies and telescreens that monitor one’s every movement. Because readers are in Winston’s head, they make the mistakes he makes in judging people. At one point he looks around a room at work and tells himself he knows just who will be vaporized within the next few...
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- 1984: Introduction
- 1984: The Principles of Newspeak
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- 1984: Overview
- 1984: George Orwell Biography
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1984: Summary and Analysis
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- Part 1, Chapters 4 and 5 Summary and Analysis
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- Part 2, Chapter 8 Summary and Analysis
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- Part 3, Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis
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- Part 3, Chapters 4 and 5 Summary and Analysis
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1984: Quizzes
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