1984

Cover Analysis

1984

Cover Analysis

What can you see in the background?

What are they doing?

What are the men in the blue suits doing?

Where are these people at?

-Possibly a communications room for the army, or society.

• Why are the buildings in the background pyramids?

- It represents slavery; just like in the Bible, where the Jews were slaves to the Egyptians and built pyramids and monuments for them.

- On the pyramid it says: Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace.

• Why does the woman have an anti sex emblem/pin and wears dress so open?

• The illustration has many contradictions

• What is the man in the black clothing doing?

- He is either breaking the wall or building; another contradiction.

- Symbolizes Berlin wall - Building it represents totalitarian

control- Destroying it represents free will

- Main Characters are usually on the front cover. Man behind the woman and the woman possibly main charaters

What does the eye symbolize? Biblical view: Hamsa that has the eye of Miriam Judaism; each finger is one of the five books of the

torah, or eye of Fatima, Fatima is daughter Muhammad; the five fingers represent the five Pillars of Islam. Hamsa main purpose is to protect people from the evil eye, which is like bad karma.

Natural view: The eye means that some one or something is watching you.

What or Whom do you think Big Brother is?

What does the eye symbolize? Biblical view: Hamsa that has the eye of Miriam Judaism; each finger is one of the five books of the

torah, or eye of Fatima, Fatima is daughter Muhammad; the five fingers represent the five Pillars of Islam. Hamsa main purpose is to protect people from the evil eye, which is like bad karma.

Natural view: The eye means that some one or something is watching you.

What or Whom do you think Big Brother is?

What do you see in this picture? The eye, the colors and stars of the Soviet Union Flag Represents the Totalitarian government or authority in the novel. Soviet Communism, Fascism, and Nazism are Totalitarian movements

What do you see in this picture? The eye, the colors and stars of the Soviet Union Flag Represents the Totalitarian government or authority in the novel. Soviet Communism, Fascism, and Nazism are Totalitarian movements

What do you see on this cover?- Red, White and Blue; colors of the American flag.

What do these colors make you think about the book?- Freedom, democracy, unification of nationalities.