RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)1633410.22363/2313-2299-2017-8-2-257-266Research ArticleThe Sun And Boreas: The Juxtaposition of the Dystopias by E.I. Zamyatin’s “We” And G. Orwell’s “1984” on the Basis of Metaphors of Their Characters’ Inner WorldGolovnyovaYuliya Vladimirovnagolovnyova@mail.ruThe Far Eastern Federal University151220178225726630062017Copyright © 2017, Golovnyova Y.V.2017<p>The article juxtaposes the use of conventional and creative metaphors of the human inner world in the dystopia We by E.I. Zamyatin with that in 1984 by G. Orwell. An analysis based on the methods of metaphorical modelling and continuous sampling reveals the basic metaphorical models of the characters inner world in each of the novels. There are the following basic metaphorical models of this sphere in the novel We: the professional ones (mathematical, mechanistic, and chemical), the household one, the natural one and the morbial one; their source domains are represented mainly by nouns in combination with adjectives. Metaphors of actions and states (whose source domains are expressed by verbs or nouns in combination with verbs) are characteristic of the novel 1984, the basic ones being metaphorical models of swallowing and physical pain. In the novel We the characters inner world is mainly represented by creative metaphors, while G. Orwell adds expressivity by other means, and conventional metaphors of the sphere under study prevail in 1984.</p>metaphorbasic metaphorical modelshuman inner worldconventional metaphorscreative metaphorsmetaphor-like expressionsметафорабазовые метафорические моделивнутренний мир человекаязыковые (конвенциональные) метафорыиндивидуально-авторские метафорыметафороподобные выражения[Baranov, A.N. (2014). The descriptor theory of metaphor. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures. LRC Publishing House. (in Russ).][Golovnyova, Yu.V. (2013). Metaphor and Its Place in the System of Language (Based on Metaphors of the Human Inner World). European Social Science Journal, 12, Vol. 1, 236—243. Moscow: International Research Institute. (in Russ).][Golovnyova, Yu.V. (2016). Metaphors of the Human Inner World in E.I. Zamyatin’s Dystopia. Humanities and education, 1, 100—106. (in Russ).][Dobrzyńska, T. (1990). Metaphor in a Fairy Tale / Translation from Polish A.L. Majorov. In: Theory of metaphor. Moscow: Progress. p. 476—492. (in Russ).][Zamyatin, E. (1991). We. Zamyatin, E., Huxley, O., Orwell J. We. Brave New World. 1984: novels / post-s. V. Bugarova / E.I. Zamyatin, O. Huxley, J. Orwell. Sverdlovsk: Middle-Ural. Book. Publishing house. p. 6—157. (in Russ).][Orwell, G. Reviewof “We” by Zamyatin. URL: http://krotov.info/libr_min/15_o/orv/ el_306.html (accessed: 05.12.2016). (in Russ).][Lakoff, G., Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (in Russ).][Orwell, G. 1984. URL: http://www.homeenglish.ru/Books1.htm (accessed: 05.12.2016).]