Examples Of Individualism In 1984

In essence, the room above the shop could be seen as a haven, where Winston and Julia would be “utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching [them], no voice pursuing [them], no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock” (99). As seen throughout the novel, this room becomes a refuge where they can eat jam, chocolate, and drink real coffee as well as make love without the concern of the party. This setting elicited a flourishing relationship, as paralleled through the paperweight, where Winston “had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gate leg table and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself” (150). The imagery and polysyndeton depicts an amicable atmosphere where Winston desires to further delve into an ideal world, as opposed to the repression of the society that he lives in. The “paperweight

Winston Smith, from the novel 1984, is a low status member of the Party who rules over the nation of Oceania. Winston is never alone, even in his

Winston, despite his flawed nature and his cryptic thoughts, could be seen as somewhat of a hero, he got the girl, he found a flaw in the system, he attempted to join a rebellion

Throughout the novel, Winston wanted to rebel against the government, but the fear of the thought police made him conform. The party used telescreens and other things to monitor the citizens to make sure they were not thinking for themselves. This is why Winston had to be careful in what he does because if he got caught he would have been killed. When Winston finally found people that he trusted and thought were on his side, he started to begin to do things outside of conformity. This is when the party stepped in and began to punish him with his worst fear of rats to make him conform again. Winston knew that Big Brother was not real, but he was forced to conform by being brainwashed by his

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

Winston Smith is a hero. Despite his anticipated and inevitable failure at the end of 1984, he personifies humanity’s nature to resist subjugation and repression. Actions and intentions are the true measure of a hero and Winston Smith is not found lacking in either. His failure does not diminish his status as a hero. On the contrary, he is the precise representation of Orwell’s definition of heroism: an ordinary man doing whatever he can to change a system that is devoid of decency; in spite of the obvious futility of such an endeavor.

the government, but ultimately he succumbs to the pressures he has been fighting his entire life.

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.

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

Winston eventually walks into the proles’ district and sneaks into a forbidden shop to buy a paperweight, a relic from the past. As he is leaving the store, he realizes that the same dark-haired girl is watching him and believes that she is a spy for the thought police, and that he has surely been found out and will be eliminated.

Things to know: 1984 was a book written about life under a totalitarian regime from an average citizen’s point of view. This book envisions the theme of an all knowing government with strong control over its citizens. This book tells the story of Winston Smith, a worker of the Ministry of Truth, who is in charge of editing the truth to fit the government’s policies and claims. It shows the future of a government bleeding with brute force and propaganda. This story begins and ends in the continent of Oceania one of the three supercontinents of the world. Oceania has three classes the Inner Party, the Outer Party and the lowest of all, the Proles (proletarian). Oceania’s government is the Party or Ingsoc (English Socialism

The clock is also a symbol of the past, as it represents a time before the twenty-four hour clock was introduced, of a time before the Party was in control. Winston also comes across the glass paperweight in Mr. Charrington’s shop, and instead of being captivated by its beauty, he desires it because it is a symbol of the past – it represents a time where freedom was easily attainable and this is what Winston wants in the present. Winston wishes to place himself into the world that is inside the paperweight, he views the “paperweight [as] the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal” (pg. 185). The paperweight is a symbol of fragility, it represents Julia and Winston’s relationship and of the destruction that will occur if they were to be caught – their little world can be shattered with ease by the Party and its followers. Another symbol that is in Mr. Charrington’s shop is the engraving of the St Clement Danes Church, a picture that Winston desires to have because of its connection to the

Another object that is symbolic of his solitude is the diary he writes in. Here, Winston keeps his anti-government secrets, and where he “finally triumphs his fear over by setting pen to paper in the essential rebellion … thoughtcrime.” By the way he writes messages against the Party, such as “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (##), it is clear that the diary is a symbol of independent thought and freedom of the human mind, another object that defies the values of the state. His consultation in the diary shows that he doesn’t trust others, who are sheeps to begin with, and that his rebellious undertaking will be largely individual, These two objects, among others, are important symbols of

     Winston is a miserable member of a society he hates, and is controlled and watched in every area of his life. He has no desire to go on

Winston Smith is the main character of a novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell and published in 1949. The novel presents an imaginary future of 1984 governed by a group known as the Party, whose ruler and dictator is a Big Brother. The Party controls all aspects of people’s lives, including their thoughts. The name of the state is Oceania where Winston is a resident. He loathes the social systems that govern the citizens therein. They are ruled by intense fear. They have no civil rights and liberties. The people are segregated into three different social classes: the Proles (poor), the Party (middle class) and the Inner Party (the rich). No one could however, question the Big Brother’s system of ruling. Thinking about questioning the government’s principles would also be a crime (Orwell 34). Winston secretly hates the Party and starts to rebel. He starts a diary in which he exposes his rebellious thoughts. He does this even though he knows that keeping a diary is a crime and that one day he will be caught by the police and most probably killed. This act of rebellion and others discussed below first reveal him as a hero. However, it ultimately denied of his heroism by his giving in to the party’s rule. He is a hero that fails. He does not fit properly in Orwell’s definition of a hero: an ordinary person doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed. Orwell’s