1984 is about a totalitarian government that has complete control over most people's thoughts and actions. The novel was written by George Orwell in 1948 during the immediate aftermath of World War Two. His motivations for writing it during this time period was largely due to the rising of totalitarian parties in the last decade. He took inspiration from the horrors of World War Two and the political turmoil that resulted from the war. In the world of 1984, things are never what they appear to be. The main character Winston made false assumptions about many of the people he met. Winston had inaccurate theories about Mr. Charrington, Julia, and O’Brien. To begin with, Mr. Charrington appeared fairly innocuous when Winston first met him. It was not …show more content…
Orwell proves this when he states, “Mr. Charrington was still wearing his old velvet jacket, but his hair, which had almost been white, turned black” (224). Based on the fact that his appearance changed, it became apparent that he was a thought police member. This news demonstrates that everything Mr. Charrington had done was a just one big set up. Since Winston is obsessed with anything from the past, Mr. Charrington takes advantage of that. The antique looking journal that Winston bought from Mr. Charrington was done on purpose so the government can follow Winston's thoughts. Even the room Mr. Charrington rented to him above the shop appealed to Winston because it reminded him of what a room would look like in the past with no party.As result, Mr. Charrington's actions highlight a big theme in the novel, appearance vs.
Julia instructs Winston how to return to London. The two arranged meetings where and when they would meet again. Julia reveals that she is not interested in the revolt. Although, she is a personal rebel. Winston reveals information to Julia about his wife Katherine which he decided weather to not killer her or not. Winston returned to Mr. Charrington’s offer: he had rented the room above his shop in order to spend some private time with Julia. Winston reveals his fear of rats.
At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Winston is introduced as a slave who eventually was sold because his master died. Mr. Winston met up with Mr. Garie someone he used to work on a plantation. In a conversation with Mr. Garie, Mr. Winston said he will not return to New Orleans and said that “since [he] been in the North [he] met none but whites. Mr. Garie replied:
Winston and Equality are two characters obsessed with the past and history in general, they
He purchased a small journal from a shop and began to write in it out of view of the telescreen in his house, which allows anything in front of it to potentially be seen or heard. At first he had some difficulties as he could only manage to write jumbles of some of his memories, but then he began to write things like “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (Orwell, page 18).” He later had an encounter with one of his fellow coworkers, O’Brien, which got him thinking that there might be others out in the world who see things the way he does, including O’Brien himself. Winston eventually decides that his diary will become a sort of letter to O’Brien, and to a future or past where things might have been different. In these diary entries he wrote things such as, “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone…(Orwell, page 28).” This refers to how citizens think and act the same and previous events are not written as they happened, but altered to Big Brother’s benefit. He also wrote, “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Orwell, page 28).” This can be further explained by Winston’s previous thought, “The consequences of every act are included in the act itself (Orwell, page 28).” Winston
In the 2nd part of 1984 Winston is meets a girl named Julia. At first Winston believes Julia will turn him in for committing Thought Crime. Then Julia passes Winston a note and they meet each other. The Party also does not allow association that is not goverernd. This is the start of an affair between the two, because they are not married and free love is not allowed. Winston is rebelling fully by his association with Julia. The 2nd section Winston fully rebels, he joins an underground resistance, and he believes that his life is better because The Party is no longer controlling him. At the end of this section Winston learns that he has been set-up and followed by the Thought Police the whole time. He and Julia believed that they were resisting and rebelling but had actually been entrapped by the Thought Police.
In the beginning of the book, Winston has some fear of the party. Throughout the book, he commits numerous crimes ranging from committing thought crime, purchasing a diary and writing in it away from the view of the telescreen, sneaking away to meet Julia, reading Goldstein’s book, and even going to O’Brien’s house. All of these are against the law which shows Winston’s lack of fear for the Party. One way Winston shows that he has very little fear for the Party is when he gets a day off from work just to go see his love, Julia, which is shown in the quote: “Finally both of them managed to secure a free afternoon on the same
The main character Winston Smith was a very curious and rebelliousness individual. He wondered how and why the gove...
Throughout the novel we see the characters’ different uses and views of technology; O’Brien’s for power, Charington to incriminate rebels and Winston’s and Julia’s avoidance and frustration of its restrictions. Through Winston’s personal tendency to resist the confinement of his individuality and his intellectual ability to express his distress regarding the control of the party, enables the reader to observe and understand the extreme danger of corrupt technology use.
We feel the same emotions of the protagonist --> readers are never ahead of the narration and only know what Winston knows
George Orwell uses Winston to represent truth in a deceptive world in his novel 1984. In Oceania, Big Brother is the omnipotent and all powerful leader. Everything the government dictates is unquestionably true, regardless of prior knowledge. Even thinking of ideas that go against Big Brother’s regime, or thoughtcrime, is punishable by death. Winston serves as the dystopian hero, longing for freedom and change. Orwell uses Winston to emphasize the importance of individual freedoms, as they give us the ability to fulfillingly lead our respective lives.
O’Brien begins to “improve” Winston’s mind through physical pain; by using cruel methods of torture, he succeeds in weakening and molding Winston’s mentality. In their early sessions, O’Brien tries to convince Winston of his “truth” that two plus two equals five. He subjects Winston to physical pain until Winston’s mind begins to question itself. Eventually torture wears him down to the point of madness, as “the scenery of his mind changed”. He saw five fingers and there was no deformity.”
In this case, the government has to use severe actions to ensure they will never act in this way again. Winston Smith, is a minor member of the ruling Party and is aware of some of these extreme tactics. Since Winston is not completely brainwashed by the propaganda like all the other citizens, he hates Big Brother passionately. Winston is one of the only who realize that Big Brother is wiping individual identity and is forcing collective identity. He is “conscious of [his] own identity”(40-41) . Winston continues to hold onto the concept of an independent external reality by constantly referring to his own existence. Aware of being watched, Winston still writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”(21) in his diary. Winston believes whether he writes in his diary or not, it is all the same because the Thought Police will get him either way. Orwell uses this as a foreshadow for Winston's capture later on in the novel. Fed up with the Party, Winston seeks out a man named O’Brien, who he believes is a member of the ‘Brotherhood’, a group of anti-Party rebels. When Winston is arrested for thought crime by his landlord, Mr.Charrington, who is a member of the Thought Police. Big Brother takes Winston to a dark holding cell, to use their extreme torture strategy to erase any signs of personal identity. Winston's torturer is O’Brien, the man he thought to be apart of the brotherhood. Winston asks
The theme to the character Mr.Charrington ,Power of Propaganda are very well relatable to him due to Mr.Charrington having most noticeably deceiving Winston and Julia. The Power of Propaganda relates to him by having people believe he was and older gentlemen who runs a shop. His speech had been altered as well but, was recognizable to some degree, enough for Winston to find his voice familiar when him and Julia were raided. It as well corresponds, by how he was misleading of his true nature and gave a false viewpoint. Mr. Charrington’s deception and betrayal traits are prime examples of how the world of “1984” turns.
In the beginning of the book Winston is writing in a diary. An act which may seem small but which is a unquestionably large crime in the book. From this moment the reader can tell that Winston is envious of life before the Party from what
he is a man with a tragic flaw. Winston's fatalism, selfishness and isolation ultimately lead him to his