A dystopian society is always an interesting setting for a story but George Orwell’s “1984” might be one of the most nefarious settings in a novel. In the novel “1984” we see a reimagined London from the view if an authoritarian dictator took over a big portion of the world. For the life of the main character Winston life is mundane and gloomy, always being watched and surveyed just like most citizens of air strip one which is what London is now called . Every day for Winston seems cold, and depressing for some reason, “Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold” (Orwell 4). 
Through the eyes of Winston, no matter where he looks including outside through his window, the world looks cold and sad. Life for Winston is truly sad as “The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features” (Orwell 4). 
In Winston’s living area victory mansions, the scenery is decrepit and worn-out with posters instilling fear as you walk through the hallways. 1984 is a dystopia like no other but a truly depressing and an inhumane one I would not like to live in with its creepy poster all around and the disgusting and decrepit housing situations.