Tone in 1984

Tone in 1984

1. Around their miserable lives

   • Dark
   • Pessimistic
   • Gloomy
   • Totalitariam regime opression
     • Conformism in society
       • No own thoughts
   • Winstons life is a constant suffering
     • Fatalistic attitude

2. Around the possibility of rebellion

   • Toned is change
     • More sympathetic and warm
     • Not plain
       • Emotions are stonger
   • Winston and Julia relationship
   • Every action with caution

3. Examples:

   • “And until that happened, though it might be a thousand years, they would stay alive against all the odds, like birds, passing on from body to body the vitality which the Party did not share and could not kill.”
   • “His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Centre.”
   • “It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain”
   • “He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.”
   • “The flagstones were wet as though they had just been washed, and he had the feeling that the sky had been washed too, so fresh and pale was the blue between the chimney-pots.”