Essay Archive - The Ironies in Orwell's 1984
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....
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