Some of
the allusions thatemploys in are meant to deliberately contrast the world
of Oceania with the reader's reality. In employing these allusions, Orwell is able to make
vital statements about Oceania and the condition of what is and what should never be.
One set of allusions early in the text can be found in Part I, Chapter 3.
The first one is anto Shakespeare. wakes up from a dream in which various images of his
mother and a naked woman, and utters "Shakespeare:"
With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system
of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into
nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the
ancient time. Winston woke up with the word 'Shakespeare' on his lips.
The allusion to Shakespeare is deliberate. Shakespeare wrote about
the complexities of emotion and the ambiguities that exist within the human...
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