1984 Journal Entry

The protagonist in Orwell’s 1984 is Winston Smith. In the novel the reader experiences the dangers of a totalitarian world through the eyes of Winston Smith. He, unlike the other citizens of Oceania, is aware of the illusions that the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police institute. Winston’s personality is extremely pensive and curious; he is desperate to understand the reasons why the Party exercises absolute power in Oceania. Winston tests the limits of the Party’s power through his secret journal, committing an illegal affair, and being indicted into an Anti-Party Brotherhood. He does all his in hopes to achieve freedom and independence, yet in the end it only leads to physical and psychological torture, transforming him into a loyal subject of Big Brother.

After reading part two of 1984 it made me think and refer back to the theme and ideas that were expressed in part one. Winston finally finds in out the black haired girls name, Julia. Soon they begin a love affair that is strictly against the laws and rules of their land. This is surprising to me because they know if they are caught they may have a certainly of death another thing that strikes me about the passage is O'Brian. In part one during the two minutes Nate, O’Brian and Winston exchanges glances and from that point on Winston believes O’Brian is just like him, against the party. In part two, O’Brian commits a strange act. He gives Winston his address which is very uncommon. A few nights later after Winston and Julia leave

To begin with, the main character of 1984, Winston Smith, hates Big Brother who is basically the most powerful ruler of Oceania, the area Winston lives in. In addition, Winston keeps a hidden diary in which he writes all his evil thoughts about how he hates the party and their laws. In chapter 1 part 1, it says, “His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals — DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page.” This shows that Winston

Even though Winston contributed to committing acts against the government that are quite courageous, it was all in a discrete manner. Instead of engaging in an open revolt, Winston’s sexual escapades with Julia and journal entries were in secrecy and remote locations that were never repeated twice, also in the room provided by Mr.Charrington. I interpreted Winston’s approach to act in confidence from everyone around him out of the fear of the reactions of people during the two minute hate, telescreens, hidden microphones, and brainwashed, spying neighbours outing you at the first open moment to save themselves very cowardice rather than make an open revolt. The open revolt would have spoken actions of a hero, “ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed”. Basically even if Winston’s public revolt to get others to go against rather than conform to the Party’s laws and live in fear didn’t succeed, it would have been the effort that counts for what a hero would do to better a country, people, or even the world. The fear Winston felt and had thought of in the back of his mind that he mentioned all kept him regretting the actions he took part in.

Winston is of the age of thirty-nine. His childhood took place before the Party existed in 1960, as he reminds it. He often fantasizes about the “Golden Country”, also about his mom and sister. He’s always holding on to these thoughts because it’s the only aspect of a true memory before the Party. There’s this obsession he has with finding the real truth on whether life was better before or after Big Brother took over.

     Tired of feeling the way he is, with the monotonous struggle of everyday life Winston decides to oppose the party in more real ways; and begins to deviate from certain set behaviors to free himself from this bondage of the party. “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”(25-26). He has realized what the government does to people; how everyone is made to be the same, where no one is allowed to think on their own. The party is omnipotent in all affairs and he will not go along with it anymore. Winston has made up his mind; he is going to do everything he can to bring down the party. He and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment one afternoon, and Winston’s true hatred is revealed. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party,

Winston Smith believes that hope for the future lies in the proles because it's their rebellion that can bring down Big Brother, and Usher in the change of the government. Proles ,proletarians, working class, and comprise make up about 80% of the population. Also Winston sees proles as happy workers who are not smart. Although they might not be that smart the workers are free from scrutiny and constant morning party. Smith hates Big Brother and the numerous restrictions it makes a difference on the party workers. He works in the Ministry of Truth which is responsible for altering and editing

The first use of literary devices in George Orwell's 1984, is situational and verbal irony. Throughout 1984 Orwell is relaying what he believes a totalitarian government would look like in using the phrases "War is Peace," "Slavery is Freedom" and "Ignorance is Strength" (Orwell, 4). This suggests that Big Brother is trying to make people believe the opposite of what is true. Such a thing would help them by allowing for more control when they can change a person’s way of thinking. Furthermore, he says that Winston believes that O'Brien is thinking the same way about the government as he is, but as it turns out he is a member of the Thought Police (Orwell, 17 and 239). George Orwell has proven in this text that one never really knows the motivation of a person when it comes to a totalitarian government. At first, Winston thinks that O'Brien and he are on the same page when it comes to the government;

Winston Smith is a typical example of vertebrae in the spine of any society. Hard working and keeps a rigid structure by absorbing impact, filling the spaces with his unknown desires. The bending of laws to avoid self-destruction in constant pressure from society and government. The idea of having every thought controlled, monitored and limited to what the elite deem as a necessary compromise to maintain peace and order in Oceania or any other Utopia in a general sense. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of their own choosing, to understand the concept is the true hell for Winston.

Imagine, there is a country where the government is corrupt. They watch people every minute, every millisecond. That’s not what the worst part either, they will put people to death for having opinions. That would be terrible, right? That is exactly how the government is in the novel 1984,written by George Orwell. Winston Smith, the main character of the novel, had many decisions to make. He decided to rebel against the nasty government, which he knew no one got away with. He knew it would be hard due to the fact he was under surveillance twenty-four seven. Nonetheless, Winston’s fate is foreshadowed from the reckless decisions and gullible actions he has throughout the novel.

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, is about the external and internal conflicts that take place between the two main characters, Winston and Big Brother and how the two government ideas of Democracy and totalitarianism take place within the novel. Orwell wrote the novel around the idea of communism/totalitarianism and how society would be like if it were to take place. In Orwell’s mind democracy and communism created two main characters, Winston and Big Brother. Big Brother represents the idea of the totalitarian party. In comparison to Big Brother, Winston gives and represents the main thought of freedom, in the novel Winston has to worry about the control of the thought police because he knows that the government with kill anyone who

George Orwell succeeded in creating a story that gives a very bleak and possible future. Since the future is unknown, there are a near infinite possibilities for stories, each as possible as the next. 1984 offers a different kind of look into the future. The majority of books that depict the future show a hopeful version of the future. Even other dystopian stories give the characters hope in some way shape or form. 1984 depicts a future with no hope and any hope that is given is immediately taken away. “’If you are a man Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent.’” (Orwell 270). O’Brien’s words in this passage take any hope from Winston that men might prevail over the Party. This bleak portrayal is Orwell’s way of warning that the only way to stop this future is to prevent it before it happens. For once this future comes to be, there is no stopping it.

Despite Winston's passionate hatred for the Party and his desire to test the limits of the Party's power, his capacity to carry out action against the Party is burdened (i.e. lacking positive freedom) by his intense paranoia and overriding belief that he will ultimately suffer scrutiny and brutal torture for the crimes he

Today I gave the note to Winston. At first, I wasn’t sure if I should’ve gave him the note or tell him in person, but if I would have told him in person I didn’t want us to get caught or his reaction might have made it obvious and we would have been caught by the thought police. Instead I gave it to him in the office, I pretended to fall and he came to help pick me up and I slipped it in his hand. I would like to know what his reaction was when he read the note. I’ll just see what happens tomorrow.

<Interesting Intro> 1984 takes place in a society where the government controls everything and everyone, including ones thoughts. Some characters battle with the outward conformity, where they are supposed to act and think like a party member, and with the inward questioning that makes them rebel against the party. The author, George Orwell, witnessed totalitarian societies with his own eyes. Because of this, Orwell sends a message through the book by trying to show how totalitarian societies are bad. Orwell uses Winston as a symbol that shows how totalitarian societies are not beneficial to the people and can make them live double lives.