Dystopia In 1984

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,

In George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, Winston, a rebel who lives in a dystopic society challenges the totalities regime of Big Brother. The all-knowing Big Brother controls everything in Oceania. Anybody who despised the Party will be punished, arrested or abused, until their heart desired Big Brother. In this novel, it is unknown whether Big Brother is fictitious or an actual human being. Nevertheless, he symbolizes fear, hate, and pessimism to the people of Oceania.

Mr. Charrington -  He’s an old man who runs a secondhand store. He encourages and seems to support Winston’s rebellion against the Party and his relationship with Julia after he rents him a room. He seems to share Winston’s interest in the past. He also is a member of the Thought Police.

Winston at first hates Julia, because he believes she is spying on him and wants to report him to the Thought Police. One day, Julia gives a note to Winston saying “I love you”. They start a dangerous love affair which can get both of them killed or sent to a labor camp, but Winston and Julia don’t care because they have finally found someone who hates the Party as much as the other. O’Brien invites Winston over to his apartment to look at something work related. Winston takes this chance to confront O’Brien about the rebellion and he tells Winston that he is, in fact, part of the brotherhood and gives him a book to read about it. Right after he reads this book, the Thought police arrest him and Julia and send them to a government building called the Ministry of Love to torture

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

Totalitarianism, derived from a society which proceeds without cautiousness towards governmental power, can induce many limitations among citizens and every aspect of their lives including individualism. In George Orwell’s 1984, the artificiality of the dystopian country influenced the protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, to try and deceive the government in any way possible. Winston and many others view individuality as immensely important, but a large challenge to achieve due to the diminished hope evident in dystopia. Hope is prominent among Winston in his actions towards the totalitarian government, referred to as Big Brother, throughout the novel. From the beginning of the novel when readers are introduced to a dismal setting to

The establishment of the protagonist, Winston Smith, is evident when he finally stops hating Julia. At the

In the beginning of the book, Winston is introduced as a party member who works in the Minister of Truth. The readers realizes that Winston has a slight rebellious side to him when he buys a journal and writes, “Down with Big Brother” (Orwell 18). This puts Winston in danger because like every Oceania citizen, Winston is surrounded by telescreens, hidden microphones, and spies. This also demonstrates the distrust that the government has for their citizen, for they can not say, do, or think anything against the head political figure, Big Brother. One

Winston’s ability to think freely poses a threat to the Party’s pursuit for an eradication of resistance. In the hidden room of Mr. Charrington’s shop, Winston and Julia wake up after and begin to prepare themselves for work. Clothing himself, Winston hears a prole woman singing outside their window, and begins to admire her voice. He thinks to himself, “As he fastened the belt of his overalls he strolled across to the window. The sun must have gone down behind the houses; it was not shining into the yard any longer.

In the novel 1984, Winston man living in 1984, wants to overthrow Big Brother and the Party, both of which he believes are responsible for bad the state of the society he lives in. But such a crime would prove to be immensely hard seeing that “Big Brother is watching” always, through telescreens, cameras and hidden microphones. Not to mention the fact that you can be arrested for “thoughtcrime” alone, which would lead to vaporization. Winston rebels anyways alongside his illegal lover, by joining The Brotherhood, a secret organization set on bringing the downfall of Big Brother.

In George Orwell’s ‘1984’ every civilian lives under direct government supervision in a surveillance state dystopia. Everyone lives in constant fear and paranoia that one-day Big Brother will have them exterminated because they spoke out against the government. Winston Smith, a government worker knows just how dangerous Big Brother can be, but he still feels like he has the obligation to show everyone how the government is controlling them. Winston one day meets a girl named Julia who shares the same belief with him about the government and both want change. They decide to join The Brotherhood which is a group that wants to see the end of Big Brother’s regime.

Imagine living in a world where you could not make your own choices, or be your own person. In the novel 1984, this is exactly what happened. In a place called Oceania where there is no such thing as privacy and personal freedom (Roelofs), the main character Winston Smith, is living a strict life under the demanding party known as Big Brother. Winston decides that he wants his life back to normal and tries to rebel against the Party. Meanwhile, he is thought to be a lunatic because he is living his life how a normal person would, but everyone else is now living under what is thought to be a utopia society. Throughout the book Winston strongly disagrees with the fact that every second he is being keep under surveillance. Though at some points he believes he is being discrete, in reality someone is always watching. In 1984, George Orwell depicts the lack of privacy and loss of individualism which affects the characters and the society as a whole.

Julia! I don’t care what you do to her”(286). After all the torture, Winston’s will breaks and he gives up and betrays Julia. Winston finally bends to the parties will, showing himself as weak minded.

It provided the necessary evidence for his arrest. Moreover, the shop owner denounced Winston to the Thought Police. This also broke Winston’s heart since he could not be with Julia anymore. The shop owner abruptly changed appearance. His features changed from ‘’a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose’’ to ‘’ the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter.

What is an utopia compared to a dystopia? A perfect society or your worst nightmare? An utopia is a perfect society that is usually affiliated with a dystopia. The belief in a perfect society but is not. In 1984 everything is not what it seems. Dystopian societies used to be fiction, no it’s reality. 1984 is a novel written by George Orwell. It is a dystopian, fiction that takes place in London, England in 1984 but written in 1948. Winston Smith is a thin, frail, and intellectual 39-year-old. He hate Big brother and his whole totalitarian government. The Soviet Union and the fictional society portrayed in 1984 share similar dystopian characteristics including the use of propaganda, the restriction of freedom, and worshipping someone in society.