PHYSICAL  SETTING 

“The hall way smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats” (1984 #1). Matthew 

“The music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity.” (PDF 158) Nicholas 

“Winston was in Victory Square before the appointed time. He wandered round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother’s statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian aeroplanes”- Eugene pg 143 

EMOTIONAL SETTING

Uneasy “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (p.3 PDF Rae) 

even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. (Page 4 of PDF) Louwrens 

Maddie: almost at the level of their faces. Perhaps it had not seen them. It was in the sun, they in the shade. It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though making a sort of obeisance to the sun, and then began to pour forth a torrent of song. In the afternoon hush the volume of sound was startling.