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)