In George Orwell’s “1984’ the author uses many different ways of expressing and demonstrating setting in the novel whether that being physical setting or emotional. Physical settings are created by telling the reader things like the time, date, location, or physical features of where the story is taking place. Emotional settings are created using words that invoke words or create atmospheres for the reader to pick up on and imagine. An example of the physical setting from chapter five is, “The weather was baking hot, in the labyrinthine ministry the windowless air-conditioned rooms” (Orwell 158). This quote from the novel explains the weather of where the story is taking place and it also mentions how gloominess of the building that Winston was in. An example of an emotional setting so something that invokes emotion is, “the world was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk” (Orwell 161). Orwell writing this makes the reader feel that the room being explained has a sort of comfort in it and presents a feeling of timelessness in it. There is a vast variety of ways for an author to describe settings in their books and Orwell does a great job in doing this with the way that he uses his diction and shines light on the tone being conveyed in the novel.
