The setting of the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, is set in London, England during a time of war and turmoil. London is a colony in the country of Oceania during the year 1984. London at this time is a very dark and gloomy place. The mood is like this because Big Brother is very controlling about what people think. So there is no creativity or freedom of thought. Winston is a middle aged man who works for the records department for the Ministry of Truth. He is mentally weak for most of the book. Towards the end of the book he starts becoming stable and strong after he meets Julia. After he becomes strong he loses control again and ends up being worse than he started. Physically Winston is unfit but not obese. “Winston, who was thirty-nine, …show more content…
The importance in Winston buying the journal is that this is the first instance of Winston rebelling. The second event is the note that Julia gives Winston and herself and Winston getting together. This event gives him hope and drive for what he thinks is right. It also gives him lots of emotion that he has never felt or lived through before. All of the drive and emotion promote him to revolt and try to go against the party. The last main event goes on when Winston and Julia are arrested. Winston was arrested by the people who he thought he could trust. After getting arrested Winston finally gives himself up to Big …show more content…
society Winston being man. A quote said by Winston, “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party… We want to join it and work for it. We are enemies of the Party” (170). In this quote Winston is telling O’Brien that he is against the Party and wants to join the Brotherhood against the Party. Throughout the novel Winston is going against the Thought Police because they can hear and see everything you do everything you say and everything you think. When Winston is thinking about revolting and committing crime the Thought Police hear it in his mind. They are a huge part of the society Winston is going against. “It was not till twenty-three hours, when he was home and in bed-in the darkness, where you were safe from the telescreen so long as you kept silent-that he was able to think continuously” (109). At the end of the novel Winston is arrested and taken to the Ministry of Love. He is tortured and beaten while he was there. Winston was mentally strong until they threatened him with his worst fear rats. The Ministry of Love played a big part in the conflict by making Winston fight them and their
She passes him a note that wrote “I love you.” Winston shows a desire; he himself had always had a thought of her. After 2 days, Winston and the girl were able to meet. She had given Winston the location where they could meet again. The two were able to meet away from the telescreen unsupervised. The girl revealed herself as Julia. Winston and Julia made love. Winston sees Julia as a great partner for the rebellion.
He and Julia met up very frequently at the apartment he rented above the shop where he purchased his journal. Unfortunately, with a hidden telescreen in the room, they were found out and brought in to a facility for thoughtcriminals. They were tortured until they were broken, physically and mentally. Throughout this process, Winston remained honest in spite of the pain. “I don’t know. I don’t know. You will kill me if you do that again, Four, five, six—in all honestly I don’t know (Orwell, page 252).” From there they were rebuilt into ideal citizens and released back into regular society, to later be killed for their original crimes. “He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain (Orwell, page 297).” Despite all the actions he took to rebel against the government, in the end they were regrettably pointless when it comes to the rest of
Winston Smith is the book’s main protagonist. He 's 39 years old, and works as a records editor in the Ministry of Truth. Winston is very intelligent and thoughtful, but also rebellious and fatalistic. He fights against the Party while being aware that there is only one end result for doing
Winston commits “thoughtcrime” leading to his arrest and questioning at the Ministry of Love, the communities jail center working with matters pertaining to war. His comrade O’Brien begins torturing him in an underground room and calls it the “learning stage”. He teaches Winston the truth about the Party and their slogan; eventually he explains that “Freedom is Slavery” is easily reversed as “Slavery is freedom. Alone- free- the human being is always defeated… if he can make complete, utter submission… [and] merge himself in the Party… then he is all-powerful and immortal” (264). The Party uses this statement to illustrate that when one acknowledges the collective will, they become free from danger and desire. Those who are surrendered to INGSOC, including O’Brien, assume that when an individual has freedom they become subjugated to their senses and emotions. Moreover, Winston continues to be starved and tortured until he appears to be nothing but skin and bones when his opinions transition to align with the governments. He now accepts everything that O’Brien has expressed to him including that he is crazy and two plus two equals five. While he thinks about what he has been taught he thinks about “How easy it all was! Only surrender, and everything else followed… he hardly knew why he had ever rebelled” (278). In a sense, Winston is now free, only in a
Winston’s rebellion continues when he falls in love with Julia, a woman he actually used to loathe. Nevertheless, they both share the hatred against the Party and thus they rent a room where they meet and talk about joining the Brotherhood, a secret organisation that intends to destroy the Party. This wish can be fulfilled after Winston receives a copy of the Book that reveals and describes the truth about the world they live in. O’Brien is the man who gives him ...
From the beginning of the novel, it was inevitable that Big brother would eventually win, and Winston would be caught by the thought police. He could never have an immediate affect on the Party. His long and pointless struggle achieved no result in the end, and finally was brainwashed and lost any freedom of thought he once had.
Throughout the book he tries to overcome the government, but in his heart, he knows he has no hope of thriving because “…was already dead” for committing ThoughtCrime and involving himself in acts worthy of death (Orwell 36). All of his character traits combined lead him to his ultimate death. His attraction to beauty makes him keep hold of objects and things considered suspicious, his rebelliousness causes him break nearly all of society’s rules, and his curiosity steers him toward people and places that eventually causes the Winston torture he endures in Ministry of Love. Winston could have had some false hope of a better world where he could get away from all of the harsh rules and regulations of the Party, but in reality, his personality traits dragged him through a life already pre-written and stamped with an early
Winston is confronted with struggle throughout the entirety of George Orwell`s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Living within a totalitarian regime subsequently causes Winston to seek approaches for dealing with such abundant oppression; he finds liberation through self-awareness, understanding and ultimately rebellion. First, Winston realizes that “if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself”, alluding to the notion of thoughtcrime (162). This recognition exemplifies the complete cognizance that Winston has regarding the oppressive society displayed throughout the novel. Next, Syme states “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”, alluding to the idea of Newspeak (28). This statement directly correlates to Winston speaking with other party members to gain knowledge about how others feels about policies deployed by the government. This information-seeking also connects with Winston`s rebellion, as he actively searched for others to join his uprising, which is shown when Winston tells O’Brien “We want to join [The Brotherhood]” (171). Winston’s attempt to join a rebellious organization exhibits his evident desire to release his suppressed emotions. Winston devises a very methodical approach to deal with the problematic society he resides in.
Winston finds a loophole to expressing his thoughts through writing in a journal. Since Big Brother is always watching everything that Winston does through telescreens, he cannot verbally express his feelings towards The Party without being caught. Living in a world full of mostly uniformity, Winston obviously stands out as a recalcitrant individual. Winston is fully exposed to The Party at all time, leaving him without any privacy. Winston uses his writing to express his individuality, but he does not even feel completely safe because “The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” (15) Even when he is not expressing any opinion verbally, Winston is still in danger of being caught by the Thought Police, leading him to have a hatred and conflict with The Party because they do not allow him to express his individuality. Winston is never alone, even when he is physically alone, which diminishes his sense of any privacy. Winston’s invasion of privacy by The Party does not end with the telescreens. In Oceania, “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between
using Winston's greatest fear against him. Once re- educated, he is introduced back into society. But he is not the same person,
Winston is trapped in a society where he cannot express his individualism because the Party has control over him. Winston buys a diary to express his individualism and thoughts. In the diary, he writes, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” (Orwell 81) Winston holds onto reality at the beginning of the book. By holding onto this reality, he believes that he can overthrow the government and stop the lies that the Party tells. However, towards the end of the book, the Party takes control over Winston’s mind and Winston conforms to the Party declaring that two plus two equals five. Furthermore, Winston goes to Mr. Charringtons shop and purchases a glass paperweight. “Winston immediately
Winston even states when contemplating whether he should write in his diary that, “To mark the paper was the decisive act (Orwell, 5).” To Winston, his diary is the only recorded history that he remembers and believes as true and not altered by Big Brother. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth where his job is to rewrite historical documents to align with ever changing beliefs of the Party. Therefore, his diary would be the only accurate account of history of his time. Also, it would only contain the personal thoughts, descriptions, feelings, and narratives of Winston- not the Party's. Unfortunately, this a dangerous act in this totalitarian ruled regime wherein any form of individuality is outlawed. The Party wants its members to function as slaves abiding by the Party’s law. Any form of individuality or personal expression is a threat to the Party’s uniformity. Even, the mere thought of rebellion is enough to get someone killed by the thought police. The Party wants to control a person’s thoughts and mind, their most personal possessions. Hence why, the Party has a Thought Police because in the human brain ideas form, and those ideas can form into actions, and those actions can form into rebellion- this is the Party’s greatest fear. The Party wants the totality of an individual and wants to turn him into a “comrade.” Winston understands this; yet, he does not care,
It was almost as in his dream. Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.” Winston was later on arrested and tortured until his thoughts of Individualism and rebellion were gone. He still had thoughts of rebellion but he obeyed big brother. “He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party.
Winston is arrested and taken to The Ministry of Love, another of the main government agencies. Here he is tortured physically by starvation and electrocution under the watch of The Party. He is manipulated physiologically by being conditioned to avoid torture by answering questions about his loyalty to The Party.
At this moment, Winston feels powerless against the seemingly unstoppable Party, knowing that his life is at the mercy of O’Brien. Thus, Winston’s already weak willpower continues to wither away, rendering him more vulnerable to further reformation. The final procedure in completely transforming Winston’s personality occurs in the dreaded Room 101. To achieve his ultimate goal of breaking Winston’s loyalty towards Julia, O’Brien exploits Winston’s deepest fear of rats in a rather gruesome manner.