Anthem For A Doomed Youth Environment Analysis

An individual’s perception of and interaction with love can be shaped by the positive or negative effects of their environment. Whether the environment is positive or negative can be established through the author’s description of the physical and emotional setting. How a person shows love, is affected by love, and what one loves can all be impacted by their environment. I will use 1984, “The Soldier”, and “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” to portray this idea further. A positive environment will increase an individual's ability to give and receive love towards that which they love. Oftentimes an author will portray this positivity by using favorable adjectives when describing the setting in which the environment lies. This is the case in both “The Soldier”
The author oftentimes portrays this by using negative words to describe the physical setting, which will then lead to the emotional setting. In 1984 a negative environment’s impact on love in seen in, ironically, the Ministry of Love. The extreme emotional duress Winston is put under in the unimaginably negative environment of Room 101 causes him to forsake love entirely, betraying Julia. The negative environment is portrayed quite plainly in Orwell’s description of how Winston reacts both physically and mentally to the cage of rats placed around his head. In “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” the war-torn environment means that there are no people who are unoccupied enough to love. Every waking minute of every individual’s life is spent trying not to die, or worrying over the fate of the war. The lack of love due to this negative environment can be seen in the treatment of the dead in the second stanza. In both 1984 and “Anthem for a Doomed Youth, ” the authors uses the negative description of the environment to provide reasoning behind why individuals within the works cannot