1984 Totalitarian Government

Believing that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood and he too is opposed to the Party, Julia and Winston pay him a visit at his apartment. O’Brien tells the two that they must be willing to lose their own lives in order to take down Big Brother; however, when he asks if they would be willing to betray one another, they refuse. Winston’s hatred for Big Brother has accumulated so much that he is now willing to die solely for the sake of taking down the Party. At the start of the novel, Winston could not stand the thought of his own death. The thought haunted him, and he was not prepared for that to happen. As the story progresses and Winston is being oppressed in more and more ways, he despises the Party more than ever, and eventually is

Winston thinks of rebelling against The Party. Destroying the dishonest scriptures, the fake news reports, the lying, the abusing, the government.

Through the beginning sections of the novel, the severity of the consequences from Julia and Winston’s affair become quite prominent after the realization that they are taking part in one of the ultimate acts of defiance to Big Brother. Because Julia and Winston are risking a lot to be with one another, the secrecy of their relationship is a key factor in the suspense that builds towards the climax of the story. The suspense greatly affects the plot of the story by

government he lives in daily and the weights of just how wrong it is. Winston works in the

Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, ironically where the past is erased. History defines the human race: books, art, and ever-progressing science help the next generation to achieve greater or create new and different works of entertainment and literature.

Being a member of the Party, Winston must maintain constant loyalty to the government, or at the very least, sustain the appearance that he does. “A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can be sure that he is alone.” (Orwell, p. 210) With the incorporation of spies along with Telescreens, Winston has no true privacy. He couldn’t decide to completely or even remotely remove himself from the government because he would immediately be caught by the Thought Police. Not only that, but he continues the unjust action of rewriting and reworking pieces of media to accommodate the need for Big Brother to always be right. This is his government job and with he that, he works for a cause he stands against. The idea of disassociating oneself from the Party is irrational, their government supplies food, clothing, housing, and a purpose. Although the war is a huge faux to maintain all its members with poverty, they are still dependant of the Party to survive. To leave the Party is to openly admit Thought Crime—the same as committing suicide .

We must also consider the fact that Winston does not believe it to be possible for the Party to be “overthrown from within.” This is due to several reasons as well. Just as The Ministry of Truth has its hands in media, romanticizing the persecution of those who have committed thoughtcrimes, they also manipulate education; raising Oceania’s children as perfect party members. At an early age they are indoctrinated into an organization called “The Spies” in which they are taught to keep an eye out on not only their neighbors, but their parents as well. That, in addition to the presence of telescreens and Thoughtpolice make it extremely difficult for dissidents to pass their revolutionary ideas to the future generation, “[the Party’s] enemies had no way of coming together or even identifying one another.”

We first see this on a poster stating “Big Brother is Watching You.” Winston questions the capabilities of Big Brother power and the possibility whether the government actually has the ability to watch everyone at all times, but can’t confirm his beliefs without communicating with others. Throughout the novel, he questions the party’s motives, manipulation, and the possibility of the brotherhood existing. Orwell makes evident to the reader that Winston doesn’t approve of the party and he desperately desires affirmation from someone he feels secure discussing his thoughts. Without an intimate relationship with someone he can trust, Winston’s compelled to accept party doctrine to protect himself from the bloody hands of Big Brother.

“The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At the end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall” (Part 1 Ch. 1). Winston’s apartment in Victory Mansions is drab and plain like any other apartment building around, consisting of weird smells and posters of Big Brother staring everyone down from the walls. “In the long, windowless hall, with its double row of cubicles and its endless rustle of papers and hum of voices murmuring into speakwrites” (Part 1 Ch. 4). The Ministry of Truth is an ordinary job, with many cubicles, muffled voices, rustling papers and drab scenery to match. Winston was much like any other worker there with the same tasks and the same view. “A smallish, frail figure, the meagerness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended” (Part 1 Ch. 1). As normal for most people, there is never enough food or supplies for people support their health. It is no different for Winston to look the same plain type of person as everyone else, as they have uniformed clothes and never enough food to keep on weight. As shown above, Winston is an as simple as everyone else. He does ordinary things, lives in

He is living in the future and sadly it's not all that great. He is an Outer Party Member. He changes newspapers that are not in line with the current vision of the truth. He then burns the old papers, so they would never be seen. Winston is resentful of the oppression of everything.

“1984” is a book about totalitarianism and a man that tried to defy his regime’s ideals. “1984” was written by George Orwell in 1948 and mimicked the Soviet Union to make Ingsoc. Events take place in London, a capital of Airstrip One, which is inside the state of Oceania. The world is in an endless war in the year 1984. The regime, called Ingsoc, seeks out ways to control the minds and lives of its citizens.

Winston 's current situation working there is the major factor which lets him realize how Big brothers hold back the peoples opportunity to freedom. However, Winston keeps his thoughts and hate about Big Brother and the party for his own secret in his diary because the party will not allow anyone keeping a rebellious idea. After a while Big Brother realizes Winston’s suspicious behavior and has an individual named O’Brien sent to watch over Winston. O’Brien is a very smart man from the Ministry of truth, who is a member of the 'inner party '(the higher class). Winston comes to trust him and shares his inner secrets and ideas about the rebellion against Big Brother. O 'Brien tells Winston about a man named Emmanuel Goldstein whom claims to know the leader of the rebels against Big Brother. This also promises Winston to get a copy of the book he Longley desires. Suddenly O’Brien goes against Winston as Big Brother had already planned. Showing major secretive external conflict.

He discovers Julia, whom he falls in love with, and she has the same beliefs as him. Together they find O'Brien-a member of the inner-party, whom-Winston believes-could overthrow "The Party" (the Government), and Big Brother: the supreme governmental leader that may be fictional or may be real, we never know. They become inner-party members but then are betrayed by O'Brien, separated from each other (that's the last we hear of Julia), and Winston is tortured, until he believes the way of the party. He finally is put through enough torture in the Ministry of Love that he gives in, and believes everything the party believes-the past is alterable, the present can change, and that 2+2=5 if they say it is so.

     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,

The Book 1984 was written by George Orwell shortly after W.W.II. I think this book really shows us what would happen if the government gets too powerful. It was written long ago and set in the future, but I feel like the message is still very relevant today.