Dystopian In 1984

After Winston is caught with Julia, he knew he would be dealt mental and physical torment, but never thought it would work. He had the belief that he would be able to fight the influence and ultimately win the war against the Party. This is not at all how things turned out. The Party was able to get into Winston’s head to the extent that, “he did see them… He saw five fingers, and there was no deformity… But there had been a moment…when two and two could have been three as easily as five.” (267). This was only the beginning of Winston’s conformity, meaning everything went downhill from that point. The party won in taking all pleasures away from Winston. Everything that connected Winston and Julia was completely terminated by the Party. Winston thought he could keep his relationship forever, yet all relationships are eventually destroyed by the Party’s influence. Life could not be more hopeless for Winston after all that time locked up. Becoming more and more dependent on the Party’s materials. Winston knew by the end that, “The [gin] grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection.” (304). The gin provided by the Party is the only way Winston could keeping going. He could not sleep or wake up, that is to say he could not exist on his own without the gin every day. Yet, 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

Other than Winston’s weak characteristic and his lack of planning, the main cause that contributes to Winston’s downfall is his indulgence. Winston lacks the ability to control himself from anything addictive in life. This personal flaw makes Winston lost in his cause to the destruction of “Big Brother”. In the novel, Winston constantly drinks and smokes to distract himself instead of focusing on a plan to take down “Big Brother”. Winston’s dream is to have a love affair: “Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated” (Book 2, Chapter 1). His illegal love affair with Julia does no good to his objective of bringing down “Big Brother”. The only result that the love affair accomplishes is Winston’s

O’Brien tortures Winston, making him doubt himself and his ability to remember changes in the party then eventually breaking him. Firstly O’Brien shows to Winston that he could harm him and make him suffer for as long as he wanted by simply turning a lever, then he tells him he is ‘mentally deranged’ and that he is curing him by making him suffer. After O’Brien makes Winston suffer for days or weeks or even months or years he takes him to room 101. Here Winston is exposed to his biggest fear. Rats. This is where all the inmates at the Ministry of Love were finally broken.

The great, overlooking aura that is Big Brother is perfectly exemplified in a quote, “It is the hard and reflecting eye rather than the eye itself that seems hostile” (Lyons and Orwell 42). In this book, the people are not certain that Big Brother exists, yet he holds the most power in the entire nation. The threat of abuse in any form for disobeying the Party is what makes Oceania the perfect dystopia. The Party controls everything, even though the people may not accept it. They use force and intimidation to control. Telescreens watch over every move made by every person. There are helicopters full of thought police flying overhead looking for the slightest disobedience to be punished. The Party cheapens sexual pleasure by putting it into

Winston has an obsession with her after their first encounter, revealing she had made an imprint on his mind, which is the seed of his love for her. After making love with her, “At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive welled up in him” (Section 2 Chapter 1). This brief passage illustrates his growing affection for her along with the relinquishing of a primal desire

During Winstons torturing he says “I hate him’ ‘You hate him. GOod. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother” (282). Then he is sent to room 101. After he gets out of the room he find himself in the cafe and it is there where he write 2+2=5 on the table. This shows that he loves big brother, and the brainwashing worked. He loves him because he did not have any other option other than to love him. Ultimately “ He has won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”(298). The party won Winston is now a slave to the party just like everyone else. He has been brainwashed into thinking everything Big Brother says is

A further important contributing factor, highlighting the importance of the party’s use of Big Brother in order to maintain control over society, is the lack of freedom, independence, and individualism of the citizens. The party is shown to destroy any sense of independence and individuality amongst its citizens, illustrated by the fact that they all wear the same blue uniform, eat the same food, and live in

Countless times throughout the novel, Winston acknowledges the affair is short lived and he will eventually be captured and punished for his delinquency. He repeatedly reminds himself “that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.” (135) so the source of his determination to rebel must not be a belief in success. As Winston is striving to survive in this authoritarian society, there exists a gradual execution of his sanity. As he sits in a holding cell with white porcelain walls, no windows, his fear is lit by his own shadows as he drowns in his own sorrows at the place where there is no darkness,

He understands that he will eventually be caught by big brother as it is inevitable. In Winston’s dreamlike memories he remembers his mother and younger sister before they disappeared. Although never directly stated why, he believes that he indirectly murdered them. His mother gave him love that he could not reciprocate as a child in spite of that his love for Julia re-humanizes his emotions. This provides character development as he is able to realize that he did not kill his mother but ultimately the party breaks his and Julia’s trust to a point of no return.

“A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police... He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever.” (210-211) Not only are citizens oppressed by the rules, but even those working for Big Brother are bounded by the same exceptions. Furthermore, the Party handles betrayal in a manner, which demonstrates the domination of the government.

Big Brother can fall in many ways. The most reasonable way that Big Brother will go down is by a group bringing them down. The rebellion group of this dystopia is the Proletarians. The Proles will bring down Big Brother and the party. Big Brother was set to eventually come to a fall in the end.

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.

Julia becomes more sensible and womanlike. Furthermore, she occasionally puts on make up and makes their shelter glow and coziness procuring some better-quality items. Moreover, Julia plays a significant role in Winston’s personal development: Winston perceives freedom and happiness spending time with her. In the search of better life for Julia he finally dares to go up against the regime.

     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,