Settting

The setting that Orwell gives for this book is depressing and gray. It is set in what was considered future day London 1984 or as Winston refers to it Air Strip One. The world is also divided up into three super nations, Oceana where Winston lives, Eastasia and Eurasia. Winston lives in Victory Mansions which is a rundown apartment complex. We also learn that where ever Winston goes or anyone else for that matter they are monitored by things called telescreens. It allows for citizens to be view and recorded. Along with the telescreens being everywhere there are posters of Big Brother on almost every building. Under them is the famous caption “Big Brother Is Watching You”. Every so often rocket bombs from an enemy blow up. They keep the war real and at home for the people in the city. It could be best related to what an eastern European county might have been like during World War II. The setting is depressing because Orwell based it on some personal experience and his perspective on the time period. He makes the world be at war or seem that every place on earth in a similar state so that Winston can’t escape. This allows for the story to play out differently and with a different effect.