Language In Lauren Oliver's 'Delerium'

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This passage, taken from Lauren Oliver’s novel Delerium, is written from the first person perspective in a present tense. It describes both the society’s and the protagonist’s attitude towards love as well describing the procedures put in place for someone to be ‘cured’ of it. Throughout the passage, Oliver employs many different techniques of language in order to convey emotion and tone while also utilising many different tropes of the dystopian genre in order to evocatively set up this dystopian society. From the very outset of the passage, the main dystopian aspect of this society is revealed: loved has been ‘identified…as a disease’ and ‘the scientists have perfected a cure’. This immediately jumps out the reader as something that is …show more content…

This clearly manipulative propaganda is very reminiscent of propaganda used in other fictional dystopian societies such as in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four with the constant barrage of images of Emmanuel Goldstein as well as the armies of Eurasia or Eastasia in order to convince the population that they are the enemy. It is clear how far the people of this society have believed these lies with the protagonist being extremely confident that ‘After the procedure [she] will be happy and safe forever’ with her claiming proudly that she ‘can’t wait’. This level of indoctrination is common in much dystopian fiction in order to exacerbate the fears of ignorance and control that they often …show more content…

This is just another way that the leaders of this society try to make people believe that love is a disease and is reminiscent of the ‘Newspeak dictionary’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four (which is in its eleventh edition like ‘The Book of Shhh’ which is in its ‘twelfth edition’, perhaps indicating that the various ‘symptoms’ of love have been ever increasingly over dramatised in each new

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