1984 Setting

Physical Setting:

“there seemed to be no colour in anything” (pg 4)

“He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.” (pg. 118)

“Winston followed her, he found that they were in a natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by tall saplings that shut it in completely.” (pg. 150) 

Emotional Setting:

“In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together.” 

A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.”

 

His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it: he wished it had been hundreds—thousands. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. (Pg 158)

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