George Orwell’s 1984 reassures us that as long as other biological life forms, such as plants or animals, can penetrate through the iron bars of humankind’s societies, there will always be a potential catalyst for rebellion by human’s comparison of the supposed “freedom” of nature to their own lifestyle.
Orwell often uses animals to his symbolize characters’ situations. When Winston and Julia heard the beautiful song of a thrush in the country, Winston started to wonder, “For whom, for what, was that bird singing?...What made it sit on the edge of the lonely wood and pour its music into nothingness?” (124). The bird parallels Winston and Julia: two rebels protesting to no one but themselves and aware that the idea they preach will continue even after they die. Winston evaluates and compares his situation to the bird’s as if it were human.
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