... and Big Brother formulate, harden and are then systematically crushed by O"Brien. The use of similes and metaphors changes from the descriptive, "Like a dose of medicine", to "The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal", then back to the simplistic, "the earth was like iron". This helps to show Winston's changes in character, he ... and perhaps outs him forward as a suitable choice for the narrator. Winston's affection towards O"Brien, "He felt deeply drawn to him" allows him to disregard an...

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