Down With Big Brother Passage Analysis

Throughout the whole book Winston has been keeping a diary. He writes his diary in a hidden corner of his home where Big Brother’s huge telescreen cannot detect him. Winston needs to keep this as a secret because expression is a deathly crime in Oceania. Winston’s main purpose while writing in his diary is reflecting his hopes for a future world where humans do not lack humanity. Winston writes his desires, angsts and memories, but most importantly, he writes about the truth; for example: “ Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow”(). The reader is able to see how Winston uses his diary as a source of rebellion towards a government that decides to deny reality. By finally expressing these thoughts he loses a lot of weight from his shoulders. The diary is a very important symbol in 1984 because Orwell is really representing his own thoughts and warnings about the future through Winston’s

It is evident by the first chapter that Winston is not a fool, yet intends to play jester in public and continues the act in private. Winston is trapped in his own thoughts and is in dire need of an escape. He finds this evasive escape in the empty journal from Mr. Charrington. Winston’s diary doesn’t just represent a place where he is left free to throw his empty thoughts, it seems to be more. Winston’s secretive scraps of paper represent a place that the Party has not discovered. A place where he can think peacefully without the overbearing weight of the stress of his life or death daily performances and the rebellious thoughts confined and trapped in his head. The diary is similar to the prole apartment that Julia and Winston share. Winston desires a place that has remained untouched by the powerful influence of Big Brother. Winston and Julia have an elicit affair at the flat, which is punishable by the Party. Winston reads by himself and to Julia a book that has been neither altered nor approved of,

Winston is put in a room called Room 101 and the party tears his mind apart and tear his idea of change from his mind and makes sure it doesn’t exist ever again. Winston finds this book and it is all about how the government comes into power and what happened to the last government that tried to control the people. Equality’s of the light bulb is shot right down by the government and he gets very upset at this and tries to fight back at the government and they stop him and force the idea of change out of his head. Equality was brainwashed to get rid of the idea of working as an individual in society and work with the group of people, this a major because he wanted to become more of an individual than anyone else so he can try and change the

In the novel, Winston is a character who lacks "hero" traits as he has more traits of an everyman than a hero. Winston is an out of shape, average man with a "varicose ulcer above his right ankle" (3). Considering the typical hero, not only does Winston lack the physical strength, he lacks the mentality as well. Throughout the novel, he consistently talks about "overthrowing the Party," but he never actually does it. Instead of overthrowing the Party, he rebels by purchasing a diary and writing sentences such as "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" (20) and " I don’t care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck" (21). Winston chooses to write these into his diary as he is too cowardly to say this in public. As time passes, his

If you know you are being watched for your own safety, would you be pissed off? I know I would not because if it involved something that have to do with bullies and suicide, at least I know I have someone watching over me and I’m not alone. The article, At some schools, ‘Big Brother’ is watching, written by Kelly Wallace from CNN, talk about the schools are starting to step up and monitor the students more frequently to protect them from danger. These monitors are all off-campus, such as bullying, suicide, drug use, or violence. The school district actually pay a tech firm $40,500 to monitor the students’ posts on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media (Wallace). I only agree with the author to this extent,

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.

Chapter: “From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party”.(70)

Winston’s job within the novel is replacing history of what actually happened with a “revised version”. However, he becomes concern in rewriting the history, even though he enjoys his work, because he want to know what actually did happen to the specific period,

Winston’s journal is his creative mindset throughout the novel. He uses it to write to his friend, O'Brien, while also using the book as Winston’s escape from reality. He is able to write about his recurring dream of his mother and sister. He can use the book to write down his insecurities and thoughts

In the novel 1984, there is an appendix at the end of the book called “The Principles of Newspeak”. In this appendix it explains how newspeak was devised and how people speak it. But the most interesting thing about the appendix is that it is written in past tense, hinting that someone rebelled against or took over Big Brother, and that it no longer rules Oceania. Some ways that Big Brother could have fallen are that the proles rose up and rebelled or that the Brotherhood was real and finally gathered up enough strength to fight and bring down Big Brother.

During Big Brother 18, Paulie Calafiore and Zakiyah Everette made a great connection. Then Paulie pretty much threw it all away, and it looked like she moved on. During their time in the jury house, Zakiyah and Paulie had words with each other, but now that they are out of the house it looks like they have found a way to make their relationship work and things are really heating up. When he first came into the jury house, Zakiyah wouldn't even speak to him, but Paulie did find a way to win her back.

I chose this because in the second half of this book Winston truly changes as a character. He starts out not trusting anyone or anything afraid of big brother. Then he meets a girl that works at the same place as Winston, her name Julia. Winston and Julia start to disobey big brother by doing illegal things. A co-worker of Julia and Winston named O'Brien is working for big brother. He catches them and gets them in big trouble. Big brother brainwashes the both of them and now they are released back into the world. Winston is not normal anymore, he went from being afraid of big brother to being controlled by big

In the beginning of the movie we see a self-doubting and nervous man that does not enjoy living his life. However, he tries to think by himself and writes down his thoughts in a notebook. He writes down thoughts about the society and the government, the things he thinks is wrong or unfair. In the beginning Winston is also suspicious of people. One example of that

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”(p.81) This means that if you have the ability to state one correct fact, you must be given the ability to state all true facts. In order to be able to state all true facts, you must be given the freedom of free thought, thus Big Brother loses control over the people. Having the ability to think freely would go against everything that Big Brother is trying to control. Big Brother inserts new events and deletes events from the past in order to have the people think the same thing and to control the people in an easier manner. In this case Big Brother relates to the white southerners after the Civil War. After the Civil War, all black men were

This so successfully written conclusion made it seem as if the novel was built from end to beginning or carefully written working towards that end carefully linking each event while having no intention at all of having an ambiguous or uncertain conclusion to the novel. At the beginning of the Novel, Winston gets hold of a small notebook on which he starts writing about how he hates the party, emphasizing big brother, he wrote “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”. And all the way from the beginning he knew, he knew he would end up dead if he kept going with this, he even wrote “they’ll shoot me i don’t