In the first two chapters of 1984, George Orwell establishes the cruelty of the government therefore setting the scene and letting us get to know a character who is Winston.Orwell used Winston as the eye of the cruelty, so we learnt a bit about Winston and the happening. In the first chapter Orwell establishes the book’s dark mood with brutal and physiological cruelties. Orwell’s main point is to stress the fact that the government are watching everyone. In this book there are people called the thought police who detect what they are doing. Orwell brings the book alive in the first chapter when Winston has gone against the government writing ‘DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER’, and there the door starts to knock. 

The anticipation of what it is going to be, gives the book that dramatic premise. With the arrival of Ms Parson, his neighbor, creates a sense of Winston’s guilt and the excitement as to why Ms Parson was there. But only needing help with the pluming gives me as the reader a wanting to read on because if that is what has happened in two chapters. What will happen with 20 chapters. Also in the end he has a dream of a man called O’Brien about meeting in a place with no darkness. Which leads us onto the forthcoming future for Winston which may be dark or bright.