Analysis Of The Book ' 1984 ' By George Orwell

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

Characters and conflict are both heavily reliant on each other and both are needed for a functioning story. In the book 1984, Winston Smith, the main character, and Big Brother both play major roles in the stories conflict. Winston Smith is a minor member of the Ministry of Truth which along with two other Ministries rules over London. Winston is an intelligent and thoughtful, but weak and frail 39-year-old man. In Order to freely express himself Winston has a diary and goes to the slums of the city where he will not be monitored by the parties of big brother. Winston believes that he has a revolutionary dream that could change his and many others lives but is being oppressed by the parties totalitarian control over his life. Throughout the

Winston Smith, a middle-aged man who works as a records editor in Records Department at the Ministry of Truth, is the novel 's protagonist. He is the character that the reader most identifies with, and the reader sees the world from his point of view. Winston is a kind of innocent in a world gone wrong, and it is through him that the reader is able to understand and feel the suffering that exists in the totalitarian society of Oceania. As a secretly rebellious free thinker, Winston challenges the societal norms placed in the story by the antagonistic government, known as the Party. Orwell wants the reader to be intrigued when vivid descriptions of advanced technology, such as telescreens and hidden microphones, are included in the text providing the feeling of familiarity and pleasure. On the contrary, constant mentions of the tyrannical rule of Big Brother keeps the reader anxious about what will happen to Winston. Furthermore, the Party, the omnipresent ruling system in Oceania, uses several techniques in order to control the minds of the citizens. By exploiting the need to fit in through the use of the Anti-Sex League, the Party is able to suppress resistance to new ideas. The Party also destroyed the ability of citizens to evaluate logically by eliminating any privacy through the form of telescreen surveillance. Finally, through the

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, the main character, is in conflict with himself and society. Winston is a believer of “Big Brother”, and he aspires to respect it and live for it. On the other hand, Winston must follow the laws and regulations set by his tolitarian government, The Party. Winston consistently strives to obey his government, but he fails daily by writing in his diary of a life that is free of the tolitarian society. Writing in the diary is a crime that The Party and Thought police would surely arrest Winston, if he were caught. The simple act of writing his

     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,

We might think, he never appears in the novel or he may not actually exist but Big Brother is the ruler of Oceania. At everywhere Winston sees his posters with the message “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” Big Brother’s image haunts Winston’s life and fills him with hatred and fascination.

For this, Orwell uses juxtaposition in 1984 to highlight the dissimilarity between Winston's own reality and Big Brother's reality. In a conversation with O'Brien talking to Winston, O'Brien stats, "'You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out." (Orwell 147). This quote itself shows how controlling and messed up the society that they live in is. With Big Brother being so mind controlling and Winston being a free thinker- Winston has no chance to have it his own way while living within this

The author, George Orwell makes the novel 1984, have a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over what the citizens do. The government also watches everything the citizens do in their ‘free time’. The main character, Winston, is a lower-level party member, he has grown to resent the society that he lives in. Orwell portrays Winston as a individual that loses his sanity due the many constriction the society has made. But there are only two possible outcome, either Winston becomes more effectively assimilated of he has to change the abouts of his new desires. Winston begins a journey towards his own self-destruction, his first act that is in the diary where her writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”. He goes further by having an affair with Julia, another party member. He then rents a room over Mr. Charrington's antique shop were Winston and Julia continue their affair. This is followed by O’brien whom claims that he has connections with the bRotherhood, the anti-Party movement that is

Controlled by a fascist government, the population of Oceania struggles to live freely as they are constantly surrounded by the fear of getting arrested for the worst possible crime, thoughtcrime. In the novel “1984”, by George Orwell, Winston Smith rebelles passively against the idea of living in a complete uniform world under Big Brother’s dreadful surveillance. Thought crime’s impact on the novel’s population is devastating, so much so that it is somewhat hard to picture today’s society in its place. The sad reality is that thoughtcrime does impact the lives of the people in today’s society to some extent as it does in the book. The level of punishment for such a crime is just at a lower scale. Thoughtcrime impacts the novel’s

Focusing on internal conflicts, were were able to pinpoint many that Winston faced, some large and some less so. The main one we began talking about was his own opinions of morality and how they contrast against the ones of the Inner Party and Big Brother. Ella thought that in the beginning of the novel, Winston would have little spurts of Doublethink or Ingsoc thinking, and that we

In the novel 1984, written by George Orwell, “Big Brother” is the face of the party in control of the dystopian society of Oceania. Big Brother plays the role of what might be considered the most important character in the novel; without this character, the government would have much less control over the public. It is because of Big Brother that Winston and Julia get themselves a private apartment, and it is also because of Big Brother that they get caught later in the novel. He is shown to be “larger than life” as Winston Smith is told that Big Brother exists as the embodiment of the party, and can never die. In a sense, Big Brother symbolizes the party

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, and he was famous for his personnel vendetta against totalitarian regimes and in particular the Stalinist brand of communism. In his novel, 1984, Orwell has produced a brilliant social critique on totalitarianism and a future dystopia, that has made the world pause and think about our past, present and future, as the situation of 1984 always remains menacingly possible. The story is set in a futuristic 1984 London, where a common man Winston Smith has turned against the totalitarian government. Orwell has portrayed the concepts of power, marginalization, and resistance through physical, psychological, sexual and political control. The way that Winston Smith, the central

The story began by introducing the main character Winston Smith. Winston worked for the government, rewriting the history of Oceania to make Big Brother seem all-powerful. This showed the extreme measures Big Brother went to so that it would not be overthrown. Winston disagreed with the government, but kept his feelings hidden to escape persecution from the thought police. Since Winston was keeping his dissatisfaction from everyone, he was very paranoid. He judged everyone as if they were a spy waiting to catch him and take him to prison. Although odd, Winston symbolized the good left in a society where there was not much good.

The novel 1984 is a futuristic totalitarian society where everyone is kept under close surveillance and is forced to follow all rules and laws of the state. The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell and published in 1950. The main characters were Big Brother, Winston Smith, Julia, O’Brien, Syme and Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith is a low man on the totem pole when it came to the ruling Party in London, Oceania. His every move is watched by the Party through devices called telescreens. Posted everywhere around the city is the face of their leader, “Big Brother” informing them that he is always watching. He works in the “Ministry of Truth” which is ironic seeing that they alter history to fit the liking of the Party. As this book continues Winston challenged the laws and skirts around the fact that he is always being watched. His shocking and rebellious act is “falling in love.” Throughout this novel George Orwell utilizes symbolism to further enhance the totalitarian features of the society. In many ways these symbols represent the things that this society hasn’t experienced and doesn’t understand.