Geographically, the entire world is divided into three super states: (1)Oceania, comprising the American continents and stretching to the British Isles; (2)Eurasia, which comprises the entire region of Europe; and (3)Eastasia, including the Far East and Southeast regions of the world. It is a world in which Oceania is permanently at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia

Anyone w criticizes or questions the government, even mentally, is branded a criminal and is “vaporized.” This thought alone brings forth and image of fear and panic.

, with continuous bombings and air raids.

The setting that Orwell chose for Nineteen Eighty-Four is a vivid picture of a World War II-era city complete with dilapidated Nineteenth century buildings, their windows broken and covered with cardboard, insufficient heat, and strictly rationed food. It is a place of pure horror and its revulsion is crushingly apparent from the very first line of the novel via a foreboding image of a “cold day in April,” when “the clocks were striking thirteen.” A decaying society is depicted immediately with such descriptions as a setting of “gritty dust,” “hallways smelling of boiled cabbage and old rag mats,” the lift not working, and elec

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