The Ironies In Orwell's 1984
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.
The first type of irony is verbal irony, in which a person says or
does something one way, but the true meaning is the opposite. One of the
first example of this irony is discovered when the main character, Winston
Smith, uses the "Memory hole" to deposit things -- one would think ....
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