Friday, May 7, 2010

What imagery is depicted in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter Two?

uses different
types ofin Part Two, Chapter
Two of . In the opening paragraph, for
example, Orwell
creates an auditory image of doves
"droning" in
the background and, later, of a person stepping on a twig, which makes a

"crackling" sound. He also evokes the "sickly" smell of bluebells, which is

an example of olfactory imagery.

Orwell
uses
visual imagery, too. Firstly, there is the
image of the
"overflowing" carriage, which he uses to travel to this clearing
in the woods. Later,
there is an image ofholding a large bunch of bluebells,
which he has picked for .


The purpose of this imagery is
to create a stark contrast between this clearing in the
woods and the city.
For Winston, the woods are reminiscent of the past, of a time before the

Party came to power, and of his hopes for the future. The city, in contrast, represents
the
brutal and oppressive regime of the Party.

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