Theme Of Dust In George Orwell's '1984'

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First thing I noticed after reading chapter two is the abnormal mention of dust. The dust that Winston thought that he saw in the creases of the women’s face which turned out to be actual dust and the speck of dust that he put on his diary to ensure that he would know if it was moved or not. It makes me think that it might be foreshadowing for something later on in the book. For what, I have no idea. It might be nothing at all but it just struct me at odd at how much Orwell mentioned dust!!! The abundant amount of dust might have something to do with how rundown victory mansions is. The whole reason for the women asking Winston for help is because stuff was always malfunctioning, you’d think with a name like victory mansions it would be in a lot better shape. Winston says that Victory Mansions is literally falling to pieces, this makes me wonder if the whole rest of London is as rundown as Winston’s abode. The whole entire situation with the women and her children seemed very strange and very out of place. It seemed to me that it…show more content…
Orwell gives us more insight of the terrors of this world. He does so by saying the things that the “hero children” just adore like the songs, processions, banners,hiking, drilling with dummy rifles, yelling of slogans, worship of Big Brother. This gives us a vague idea of all of the things that are norms in this world. The thing that sticked me the most weird was the hiking. Why would hiking be among all of those other common things in a society like this. Is this hiking something like the hate? I can tell you one thing about this society or this world. They are definitely built on war. This makes me wonder if the rest of the world is like this dystopian London or is it like other books where that part of the world is the only one affected. I have the sense that the rest of the world is not exactly the same but it is not entirely different. Maybe the whole world is at
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