In the world of 1984, the country of Oceania is run by a figure known as Big Brother, a dictator type leadership. A man that goes my Winston sees through all of the lies and tries to fight back against this Big Brother and the party. In Orwell’s novel 1984 a so called hero, ‘Winston’ is supposed to be the one person that fights back against the party and Big Brother and even defeat them. George Orwell tried to make us believe that Winston was the saviour, but like every good story there 's always a tragedy. I believe Winston does infact fit this role of hero 's being failures, that the important thing is to have uttered the cry of rebellion that confirms one’s humanity. I say this because of how he ended up loving Big brother, his trigger …show more content…
He broke at the end and ends up loving Big Brother but even though this was due to because of O 'Brien 's torture and mind control, he still failed to fight back against Big Brother and the party and eventually betrayed what he believed.“Which do you wish : to persuade me that you see five, or you really see them? Really to see them”(Orwell 251). This showed that Winston did infact double think, showing how he gave him to O’brians torture and he was slowly breaking down to what he truly believes in. He always knew that this would be the outcome because of all of the diary entries he did, conversations with Julia and his observations of Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford. “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don 't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones, Not me! Julia! Not me! “ (Orwell 286). …show more content…
His first action was when he revolted with Julia, his initial act of sleeping with her was done not out of sexual desire, but the desire to rebel and weaken the government. According to his and Julia 's opinion, doing something for yourself and only yourself was an act of rebellion. Another act of Winston rebelling was the moment Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police. “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (Orwell 18). Winston wrote this in his diary several times. This showed his rebellion in the fact that doing this was thought crime, something you would be go to the ministry of love for. Buying a diary and the pen was a sign of rebellion because Winston snuck into the proles to get it. “They always know” (Orwell 18). This showed how Winston knew that he will get caught but continued to do all of these things, breaking the laws, proving that he does infact fit the role of a
... due to his unorthodoxy, such as maintaining a secret and promiscuous relationship with Julia, and the political ramifications of the sexual act; and lastly, the deconstruction of his individualism at the hands of the Party, due to its hunger for power over the mind. It is not surprising then, that among the imposing doctrines of the government of Big Brother, the character of Winston Smith was eventually wiped out. In conclusion, a passage from Winston’s diary:
In totalitarian societies there will always be the rebels and the heretics. The entire dystopian genre is founded on the idea that a handful of people will persevere through pain and torture to usurp an oppressive government. Unfortunately, the reality is that a person cannot be brave in the face of pain. George Orwell’s 1984 shatters the illusion of bravado through the transformation of Winston as his personality is stripped apart. Winston’s transformation into the perfect Oceanian citizen is divided into learning, understanding and acceptance.
In the First section of 1984 Winston doesn’t openly rebel, he starts a journal in which he writes how he remember the history that has been re-written. This is called thought crime, because it goes against what the party tells you to know. The Thought Police are in charge of arresting people who commit Thought Crime. That is the start of Winston’s rebellion against Big Brother and The Party.
One reason for Winston's rebellion, and eventual downfall, is his knowledge that the party will ultimately capture and punish him. With constant surveillance of Party members, any sign of disloyalty could lead to an arrest; even a tiny facial twitch. As soon as he writes Down with BB' in his diary, Winston is positive that the Thought police will quickly capture him for committing thought crime. With this wisdom, he allows himself to take unnecessary risks, such as trusting O'Brien and renting the room in Mr. charington's shop to host his secret relationship with Julia. Because he has no doubt that he will be caught no matter what he does, he continues to rebel, and brings his own struggle to an end.
...ecause Winston said he was against everything the Party believed in. Winston showed he was rebellious in the book because he owned a diary, had affairs with Julia, and he joined the Brotherhood.
According to the government of Oceania, most acts Winston engages in represent signs of rebellion. For example, within the first few pages of the novel, Winston wrote down the words “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” several times in his journal (Orwell 16). “Big Brother” stands as the leader of the Party who supposedly watches over everybody. When Winston writes down the phrase “down with big brother,” he participates in ThoughtCrime. Committing ThoughtCrime requires having thoughts displaying hate or defiance towards the Party. Participating in ThoughtCrime always leads to death, so someone had seen Winston’s journal, then he would immediately go The Ministry of Love, a place of torture, horror, and death. Furthermore, Winston also rebels against the party by becoming lovers with Julia and secretly meeting up with her multiple times. In this society, no two people can love, show affection, or have pleasurable sex without major consequences. Winston breaks both of these rules with Julia because he loves destroying the “pureness”and “virtue” of the Party. He strives for corruption, and says he will do “anything to rot, weaken, [and] to undermine” the Party (Orwell 111). He enjoys “the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire,” and thinks the force of desire he feels will “tear the Party to pieces” (Orwell 111). Due to his beliefs, he repeats his actions over and
His actions prove that despite what he thought before, even in believing that he’d be tortured and almost murdered in the end, he betrayed his own tongue after uttering the quote that was placed above. He, after fighting and fighting, eventually gave into the fact that he was going to die in such a horrendous way. The thought that it’d be from one of his greatest fears made it even worse. After surviving the torture from O’Brien, the rejection from Julia, and the mind battles brought upon himself after all of it, Winston couldn’t take it anymore, despite his past confessions never to give into the wrath of Big Brother. He betrayed Julia, which in turn caused him to betray himself. He performs the greatest betrayal of all, he stops loving her, and in turn, stops loving himself as well (Katherine K). He knows he’s been defeated by the end of the book. That blank face he has, thinking about how great the Party is even though it’s not, just goes on to prove that very point. Winston is defeated, after betrayal had taken over his life and altered his mind.
Orwell's sets the mood of the book as one of hopelessness for the future of humans. He contrasts this mood with a popular philosophy: belief in the progress of humanity and the ability of people to institute peace and justice in the world. These contrasting views set up the premise for the life of Winston Smith, who is one man caught in a society devoted to conformity. Orwell's warning to this is that if people cannot change the way things are going, our society will lose their human qualities. They will become soulless machines and not have a clue as to their new world they created. This is the world in which Winston Smith is caught in. He is different from the others and in a civilization which does not approve of individuality, Winston is targeted by the government from the beginning. Being different in this populace only means rebellion and that exactly is what Winston sets out to do. Winston believes that although he must conform on the outside, that no one can take his individual thought away. Winston's individuality is the only hope for human nature for he questions the most basic principles of the regime, a thoughcrime. One doctrine Winston questions is the concept of freedom-
Power, is a small word with a strong meaning behind it. Being able to control anything and everything is what everyone seems to want in today’s society, everyone wants power. The government is the guiltiest of being power hungry. They want to be able to control everyone in the country, taking away the rights that our country was founded upon. This concept of the government wanting to take over its people is similar to that of Big Brother. Big Brother is the party that controlled the people, in George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty – Four. Nineteen Eighty – Four was published in 1949 where Orwell predicts what might come to Great Britain if the government, and surrounding governments, kept up with the way it was behaving. In 1949, World War
Truth, it’s always being shifted and manipulated. It can never actually change, what changes is people’s perspective of the truth. We cannot always prove everything there is to be true or untrue, but we always strive to convince others to believe what we believe. Big Brother is a key offender of manipulating the truth, and manipulating people to believe their beliefs. It is sad that people abandon their morals, beliefs, and one’s own self, all because they face a little pain. Pain is a driving force in how we make decisions, and what decisions we make. No one wants to be in pain, and to avoid it, humans and animals alike will do whatever it takes to avoid it. Big Brother uses this to their advantage to control, and keep order in their “soul sucking”, humanity depriving society that is based on hate, lies, and pain.
Does it matter to be alive or dead when you support the enemy?! Not for winston it doesn't. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith goes on a journey to find freedom for himself and the citizens of Oceania or from his controlling government. The government have always had more than enough resources and power to make their control overshadow the citizens’ independence and free speech. Winston, at the time, really thought that he could be the voice that encourages people to come together be the change of the history of the government. The government saw what Winston stood for and they feared it so they put him in a torture routine until he truly loved Big Brother. After the process, Winston really ended up loving the big brother which means that he will die sooner than later by being shot or such. Through a vivid direct quotes from credible sources, Winston's faith is explained as a limiting
George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over the masses in the novel 1984. The protagonist, Winston, is low-level Party member who has grown to resent the society that he lives in. Orwell portrays him as a individual that begins to lose his sanity due to the constrictions of society. There are only two possible outcomes, either he becomes more effectively assimilated or he brings about the change he desires. Winston starts a journey towards his own self-destruction. His first defiant act is the diary where he writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.” But he goes further by having an affair with Julia, another party member, renting a room over Mr. Carrington’s antique shop where Winston conducts this affair with Julia, and by following O’Brien who claims to have connections with the Brotherhood, the anti-Party movement led my Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston and Julia are both eventually arrested by the Thought Police when Mr. Carrington turns out to be a undercover officer. They both eventually betray each other when O’Brien conducts torture upon them at the Ministry of Love. Orwell conveys the limitations of the individual when it comes to doing something monumental like overthrowing the established hierarchy which is seen through the futility of Winston Smith’s actions that end with his failure instead of the end of Big Brother. Winston’s goal of liberating himself turns out to be hopeless when the people he trusted end up betraying him and how he was arbitrarily manipulated. It can be perceived that Winston was in fact concerned more about his own sanity and physical well-being because he gives into Big Brother after he is tortured and becomes content to live in the society he hated so much. Winston witnesses the weakness within the prole community because of their inability to understand the Party’s workings but he himself embodies weakness by sabotaging himself by associating with all the wrong people and by simply falling into the arms of Big Brother. Orwell created a world where there is no use but to assimilate from Winston’s perspective making his struggle utterly hopeless.
His actions are not helpful, and won’t aid in overthrowing the government; it is only beneficial for his own freedom…and his own peace of mind. How most heroes are charismatic, Winston, again lacks this essential quality; he is far from a person, who would rally individuals together for a cause that could benefit others; it is simply too selfless for him to do. Even when having a gut feeling about something that has is going wrong he doesn't possess any of the necessary mental capacity nor emotion to fight; until Julia comes into his life. He still becomes immature and betrays her; he cannot handle any type of pressure and defies authority; however, he is punished, then is conditioned to “love” Big Brother in the
Orwell's 1984, Winston is aware that his rebellious thoughts and actions will ultimately bring upon his
In the beginning, Orwell shows that Winston’s id takes over when he first decides to write in a journal. During his rush of rebellion, Winston’s id unconsciously forces him to write “Down with Big Brother” in his diary. Winston’s suppressed id drives him to act upon his ultimate thought and desire without filtering them through the ego and super ego. Winston’s id for an instant makes him believe that he is outsmarting the Party, however once he realizes what he as done Winston’s ill developed superego begins to kick in and he quickly becomes overwhelmed by the idea that he will be caught. In a Freudian perspective, Winston’s continuous anxiety of getting caught stimulates the id which then further influences him to rebel against Big Brother.