1984 Rhetorical Analysis

Choose 6 quotations in your reading that you see as relevant.. Include the correct citation. NO LITERARY ELEMENTS!!

“‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the wastage is in the verbs and adjectives… After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words?... If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need there be a word like ‘bad’? Ungood will do just as well…” (Orwell 51).

“One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks to plainly. The Party does not like such people” (Orwell 53).

“Nearly everyone was ugly, and would still have been ugly even if dressed otherwise than in the uniform blue overalls… the physical type set up

The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party” (Orwell 65).

“The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars. Winston realized that he would have accepted three or even two” (Orwell 96).

“It was at night that they came for you, always at night. The proper thing was to kill yourself before they got to you. Undoubtedly some people did so (Orwell

A majority of the population was ugly even though the idealistic standard of beauty was far above the average person living there. Instead of tall, muscular, light, and carefree people, most ended up being dark, small, and unattractive. This relates largely in the current society because magazines portray thin to be beautiful, and until the last decade has this beauty standard started to change. When things as simple as a beauty standard are different from the current world, it allows readers to think upon the idea of living in a different