Analysis Of George Orwell's 1984

For many readers, the ending of George Orwell’s 1984 is a kick to the gut. Throughout the novel George Orwell teases the audience with the idea that there was going to be some sort of happy ending, and that Winston as an individual could live his life without control of the Party. In the end, he becomes brainwashed just like every other member of society. However, as readers we should have been able to pick up that the real end came in the beginning. When Winston began writing in that journal it was the beginning of the end for him and although he claims he won the victory over himself, the only real victor, in reality, is the Party. Orwell uses the book, and specifically the last chapter, to give a warning of what it would be like to live in a totalitarian society under complete control of the government. The end for Winston starts when he begins writing in his journal and he knew that. Writing in it was viewed as Thoughtcrime and was an act of rebellion in the eyes of the Party. Especially when Winston wrote things such as, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”(19). Winston also disobeys the rules of the

The whole book was just a set up for the last chapter. Orwell had to end 1984 in the way he did because otherwise he would not have achieved the effect he was looking for with the novel. It was Orwell’s way to demonstrate how little freedom anybody would have under that type of control. He was trying to warn people what the future would be like if things were to continue on the path they were when he wrote this. It was his warning that communism would lead to a world like this because at the time he wrote this was the time that Stalin was exercising many of the same practices the Party does in 1984 such as rewriting history and torturing/brainwashing