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Nineteen Eighty-4 Research Paper

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“Yellow. Yellow is attention-grabbing. Fear of the unknown. Entrepreneurialism. Yellow is toxic sunshine, cycles of creative destruction, false laughter. Disease” (Stewart, 73). My paper is about yellow in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this paper I will be discussing more specifically how the color yellow is used as symbolism and provides meaning to the themes of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The color yellow appears many times in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, occurring 12 times in total. Initially, one could interpret Orwell’s choice to use yellow as simply creative license, but after so many instances of it during specific thoughts, feelings, and settings, one can infer that Orwell used this color to indicate more meaning than what lies on the surface. …show more content…

There is the red of Russia, the red of blood, and the red of lobster; all of these could factor into a story and give it much more meaning, symbolism, and depth than it had when originally written without chromatic description. Colors are attached to meanings in our minds, we have associations with each of them, based off both psychology and personal experiences (Kaya and Epps, 3). The analysis of the hue of yellow begins with color theory and interpretation. The sciences revealed the reasons why Orwell may have used so many instances of yellow in Nineteen Eighty-Four. The ideas and interpretations developed by scientists and artists alike over the years led me to discover the true meaning of color and what yellow has been linked to over the many centuries of humans being able to see color, acknowledge color, name color, and use

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