Глава I
vile wind - awful wind. author highlights it's strength, unplesantless without saying it straight.
fruity voice - sweet-sounding voice. this epithet helps us imagine how this voice sounds. sugary and cute, fake.
helicopter hovered like a bluebottle - helicopter is comparised to a bluebottle, since they both hover in the air, making annoying buzz.
grimy landscape - this epithet helps us feel into unpleasant atmosphere of the town. severe and creepy in it's totalitar regime. author highlights Big Brother's influence on the world
squeeze a memory out of - winston struggles to remember his childhood, no matter how hard he tries. it also might refere to brainwashing - one of main themes in the novel
vague distaste - in the world, where it's dangerous to think about something undesired by party, distaste begins to blur. winston is living in totalitar world and begins to riot, finding his own opinion, even if it's not so bright yet
colonies of wooden dwellings - dwellins are being comparised with colonies. uncountable amount of same-looking houses, just as people in colony or totalitar country, such as Ocenia. It also reflects tension in the city, caused my massivness of the dwellings.
blue with fright - exaggeration, used to highlight strenght of the fear main character feels because of his own mind, actions and their consequenqes
applause from the party seats - аплодисменты от мест партии. аплодируют не сами места партии, а ее участники. может подчеркивать единство их мыслей.
it's not the seats who applause, but people who seat there. however, it can be used to highlight unity of their mind, driven by party
stream of rubbish - it's used to describe winston's mind. he pours his thoughts into his diary. tangled, wrong and scary, which author comparises with rubbish. these thoughts make his feel of sense "stained"
mouth opens like of a fish - person haven't got their own thoughts. mouth opens just as stupidly, as fish's
ecstasy of fear - it's a metaphor and antithesis. fear, like an ecstasy for some people. while majority of people perceive fear as something awful, some feel a rush of pleasure from it
guards of sanity in the world of lies - guards of sanity is the way author calls winston and goldstein and others, who are ready to riot. party, who have built story of the Ocenia on lie are being contrasted with characters, who carry the truth into society.
standing like a rock - a common comparison, used to show unwavering will of character.
beautiful hallucinations - hallucinations are affect of poisoned consciouness. but what he sees in these hallucinations are his desires. they are beautiful for him, but for the reader they are awful and disgusting
locked loneliness - закрытое одиночество. герой в своих убеждениях и отношении к партии одинок, но даже это одиночество приходится сковать, ведь он - часть общества, приверженцев Большого Брата.
character feels lonely in his thoughts, which are unshared. he has to hide his loneliness, since he's in party and he will be erased immediately, if someone finds out about his unloyalty.
Tasks
1. Read Chapter 1
2. Read given analysis
3. Express your opinion on the chapter in 3-7 sentences, using words and expressions from the chapter
4. Analyse some of meanings using given plans or your own.
gorilla-faced guards
heart thumpimg like a drum
ring of faces