A Rhetorical Analysis on Nineteen Eighty-Four
Running Head: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
Nineteen Eighty Four: A Critical Essay on Rhetoric
Bereket Kifle Composition 12 Honors
Abstract
George Orwell employs the usage of different rhetoric throughout 1984. The rhetoric differs from describing the human body and its struggle to survive to the different crimes and how the citizens felt about them. Also, within 1984 lies a warning from Orwell: to eliminate the caustic consequences of a communist government. While Orwell served as part of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma during the 1920s, he examined the faults of the communist government. This phenomenon inspired Orwell to warn governments world-wide to stay on the right path to a safe and free rule.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Critical Essay on Rhetoric
Winston, sitting in an interrogation room, wondered to himself, “How did it come to this?” The thoughts flowing through his mind when finding out that O’Brien was secretly working for Big Brother and the Party could have ranged anywhere from abhorrence to fear. As Winston cries out for the torture to stop in Room 101, the reader cannot help but to try and feel his pain. Even though Winston knew that this day would eventually come in his life due to his pessimistic and fatalist ways of thinking, one still receives pathos when reading over that section. Also, logos is thrust into the reader’s mind when looking at newspeak and how it effectively controls the minds of most citizens of Oceania. These are only a few of many different examples of rhetoric, including ethos, logos, and pathos, sprinkled through the novel, 1984. George Orwell, author of 1984, warned that governments, left unchecked, would rule their civilizations using techniques like those presented within his book. The reigning leader in Orwell’s novel, Big Brother parallels a dictator whose decision of having ultimate control forces every citizen to either love him or fear him enough to follow the
Nineteen Eighty Four: A Critical Essay on Rhetoric
Bereket Kifle Composition 12 Honors
Abstract
George Orwell employs the usage of different rhetoric throughout 1984. The rhetoric differs from describing the human body and its struggle to survive to the different crimes and how the citizens felt about them. Also, within 1984 lies a warning from Orwell: to eliminate the caustic consequences of a communist government. While Orwell served as part of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma during the 1920s, he examined the faults of the communist government. This phenomenon inspired Orwell to warn governments world-wide to stay on the right path to a safe and free rule.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Critical Essay on Rhetoric
Winston, sitting in an interrogation room, wondered to himself, “How did it come to this?” The thoughts flowing through his mind when finding out that O’Brien was secretly working for Big Brother and the Party could have ranged anywhere from abhorrence to fear. As Winston cries out for the torture to stop in Room 101, the reader cannot help but to try and feel his pain. Even though Winston knew that this day would eventually come in his life due to his pessimistic and fatalist ways of thinking, one still receives pathos when reading over that section. Also, logos is thrust into the reader’s mind when looking at newspeak and how it effectively controls the minds of most citizens of Oceania. These are only a few of many different examples of rhetoric, including ethos, logos, and pathos, sprinkled through the novel, 1984. George Orwell, author of 1984, warned that governments, left unchecked, would rule their civilizations using techniques like those presented within his book. The reigning leader in Orwell’s novel, Big Brother parallels a dictator whose decision of having ultimate control forces every citizen to either love him or fear him enough to follow the
References: Easterbrook, W. T. (1998). Innis and Economics. In J. Gariepy (Ed.)Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, 77(pp. 291-303) Detroit: Gale Research Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, (3), Retrieved March 18, 2009, from Literature Resource Center via Gale: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=keno28601 Orwell, G (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London, United Kingdom: Secker and Warburg.