“A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head” (pg. 180). Rumpelstiltskin is a little imp who causes trouble. The story of Rumpelstiltskin includes greed and the power of believing. Orwell calls someone involved with the government a ‘Rumpelstiltskin figure‘ insinuating the beliefs of the figure into Big Brother and the government. The government in the novel 1984 is essentially greedy, in that it wants total control, and believes in the power of believing. Whatever the government says happened, everyone else is to believe that this was the case. Orwell better describes this government by using this allusion.
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