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WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Page 4-1984
One technological style tool Mr. Owell uses throughout the book (up to this point) is the use of various fonts and styles of font. Big Brother's slogan's (seen above) is always in ALL CAPITOL LETTERS and spaced the same. It is never hidden in a paragraph to be forgotten. Similarly Winston's journal entries are always initialized. In this way Owell is making visuals out of his prose. This works well to distinguish if something is important (like the journal entires) and to express theme. One theme is that "Big Brother is watching", well to me that means he's everywhere and his slogan is everywhere. It's on posters, coins telescreens and it's always in capitol letters. It simply can not be ignored thanks to it's large and aggressive nature. Owell is able to portray this thought to the reader by making Big Brother's slogan jump off the page and into your personal space.
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