Orwell begins describing where Winston, who is the main character in the book, lives and what it is like. Winston lives in an inadequately named block of flats called Victory Mansions. It is a run down tower block that Orwell describes using adjectives and metaphors that appeal to the senses, like "the hallway smelt of cabbage and old rag mats." Straight away Orwell introduces the leader of the totalitarianism state, Big Brother, he does this by pointing out the oversized poster Big Brother at the end of the corridor. Orwell describes the figure in the picture as a "man of forty-five, with…
