Entry 5 - Mood

What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

Dark, mysterious, edgy, and tense are some words that can describe the mood of this novel. Over this book, there was cast of darkness that represented the imaginative negative Utopian world in 1984. With Big Brother, the Thought Police looking so dangerously chilling and terrifying, it's no wonder the book has such a heavy atmosphere.

With monitors everywhere and feeling watched even in your private places make the overall mood edgy and tense. It would be the most uncomfortable sensation you could have. Every action that you do and even the slightest movement you make could bring down the whole squad of the Thought Police into your house. Just thinking about it would drive anyone of the edginess and the tense feeling.

While Winston and Julia are acting against Big Brother, the mood, on the whole is generally more intensified. The three: Winston, Julia, and O'Brien build up and plan a conspiracy which sets the mood with a tint of mystifying feeling. There is also a tense feeling as well since they know that they will be discovered but don't know when.

After this, there are the betrayals. Winston, Julia, O'Brien, and Mr. Charrington all betrayed one another. Winston and Julia when they were tortured, Mr. Charrington as one of the members of the Thought Police, and O'Brien betrayed both Julia and Winston of being an enemy of Big Brother. With all the changing of history, changing thoughts, opinions, ways of speech, and being ruled under one person, 1984, as a distopian society had a pessimistic and a negative mood.

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