Theme Of 1984 By George Orwell

In the excerpt from the novel 1984, Orwell uses a simile and 3rd person limited point of view to describe protagonist Winston’s oppressive world where the government controls even thoughts. In doing so, Orwell emphasizes a theme about a government with too much power over information and surveillance. Orwell uses a simile to compare a police patrol helicopter to a bluebottle fly. Inside his flat, Winston nervously watches from his window as “a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight,” meaning that Winston’s life is drab and boring. (Orwell qtd. Studysync 162). This suggests the police patrol’s helicopter has similar characteristics to the bluebottle fly