The Ironies In Orwell's 1984
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The novel 1984, by George Orwell, has many examples of irony
throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation
irony, are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following
essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each from
the book.
Th ....
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.... the name of the leader of Oceania,
"Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser
and helps the "littler siblings" -- this not the case with 1984's Big
Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move
a person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character
or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the
opposite of what was thought. One examp ....
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