1984 #2

Motif-The motif of censorship and being mindless of what is going on in one's society is starting to take a different turn in the second third of the novel. In the first part of the novel it is obvious that most citizens are mindlessly living their lives under the censorship that is all around them. In the second third of the book, Winston meets Julia and they start to hope that a conspiracy exists and their ideas start to go away from what is  accepted in their society. "When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing ,made literally no difference. Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor  your actions were ever heard of again"(165). Under all of the censorship, the citizens are molded into what the Party wants them to believe and after that there is no escaping. Orwell is trying to say that the only thing that we may have control over in this life is our own mind. If nothing is left after that, then you are not yourself and are living a mindless life. As long as you don't let the Party influence in any ways in order to control your mind, you will always know the truth. The truth is the only thing that we can hold onto and the only way that this can be achieved is to have control of our own mind. Once the Party fills your mind with lies then you are "vanished", which can represent your identity and who you are being taken away.

Setting- A change in setting in the second third of the novel was the natural scene where Julia and Winston escape to meet for a while. They want to go to a place where they won't be seen and therefore go to someplace that has many trees. In this setting, Julia and Winston feel like they have a sense of freedom and they can do as they please. They get comfortable with each other because of the openess of the environment. " He stopped thinking and merely felt. The girl's waist in the bend of his arm was soft and warm. He pulled her round so that they were breast to breast; her body seemed to melt into his"(125). When both are under the surveillance of the Party they would not have the freedom nor the bravery to get close to one another but since there is no sense of confinement they are able to do as they please. "The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk"(150). When Julia and Winston are under the surveillance of the Party, it is often described as having a sense of confinement and something you can not escape. The room became their world.

Language-  The syntax throughout most of the novel and is very thorough and descriptive. It creates an intense feel as you read through the novel. When Orwell describes the antique shop he uses words that implies that Winston is in amusement of the past and history that was never told. ".. but the interior if the glass itself. There was such depth of it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air. It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky."(147). As Orwell describes the glass paperweight, he says it with a sense of hope and awe. Winston is intrigued by the fact that a piece of history can be taken to the present and he appreciates it. But when he talks about the Party he describes it as something very dark and ruined. " He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same color...." (160-161). Orwell uses words such as "rackety", "piles of rubble", and "uneasy" to show the reader the