Mood of 1984

The general mood of this dystopian novel, 1984 would be hopeless, dark, heavy, and restrained atmosphere. The book is divided into three chapters and the first chapter foreshadows the mood of the whole story. Smelt of boiled cabbage, old rag mats, poster of the face of Big Brother with a sentence, “Big Brother Is Watching You,” the cold looking world, Two Minutes Hate, all creates dark and restrained atmosphere. In addition, a little thrilling mood is felt in the part where Winston opens a thick, quarto-sized note book with a red back and a marble colored cover. Regardless of weather he wrote on the book or not, the fact that Winston owns it is enough for him to be caught by Thought Police. Depressed mood also arouses several times when Winston tries to recollect his past memories. The second chapter creates more thrilling atmosphere as Winston becomes more intrepid. He starts to meet the young woman with black long hair, Julia, and he also rents a small room above Mr. Charrington’s shop, and meets O’Brien personally for the secret association, the Brotherhood. The scene that forms the most intense atmosphere is when Julia and Winston are arrested by Thought Police disguised as an old man. The third chapter is in full of thrilling, horror and depressed mood. Winston gets caught by Thought Police and is sent to Ministry of Love for his reintegration which means being tortured. I feel very sad at the last part of the book, since my hero Winston loses all the character traits I like most.