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Essay Archive - The Ironies of 1984
The Ironies of 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 that this would be where
things are remembered ....
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