In this paper I will examine in George Orwell’s 1984, the characters especially Winston, Julia, and O’Brien. I will examine their personalities and psychological disorder. I will also examine whether or not health and stress, characters’ cognition and mental abilities are affected by their class. I will also examine the laws that are currently in effect today, and community regulations that are just too overbearing. I will also discuss Progressivism, Socialism, Communism, and Marxism and their founders. Are the characters individualists or collectivists? Why? Winston and Julia are pretty much the only characters that are individualists while all the other characters in the book at collectivists. The story takes place after the Second World War where London has now become part of Oceania and is called Airstrip One. In this place its government is known as Big Brother, which enforces not to have rebellious thoughts hence the name, ‘thought-crime.’ The party is also against people having sex unless they are doing their duty for the party. Junior Spies, children that are brainwashed to spy on their parents, and to report them if they are against the party. Winston and Julia are individualists because they both hate Big Brother and rebel against it. However, Winston rebels at first by illegally buying a diary and then writing in all kinds of entries especially, ‘Down with Big Brother.’ He seeks to join Brotherhood and knows that his sexual relationship with Julia is only
Winston is restless, and concerned. Hes afraid of getting taught by the Thought Police if they ever found out about him and Julia. Julia is a young, beautiful girl who lives the moment and makes best of life. She is more concerned on having fun than being being in trouble, caught, by the party.
Winston is monitored by the the thought police, Julia is as well, and Mr. charrington. They all have something in common with each other. They are not free, it gives sufficient evidence in the story 1984 when saying that Winston and Julia want to rebel against Big Brother and the Thought Police but are too scared and not willing enough to follow through with their actions. While Mr. Charrington a shop owner agrees and supports Julias and Winston's concerns but is secretly a member of the thought police. With that being said, the society that they live in will never be
The novel “1984” by George Orwell exemplifies the issues of a government with overwhelming control of the people. This government controls the reality of all of their citizens by rewriting the past, instilling fear, and through manipulation. This is an astounding story because of the realistic qualities that are present throughout the text about an extreme regulatory government and its effects. This society is overwhelming consumed with the constructed reality that was taught to them by Big Brother. George Orwell brings significant aspects to the novel like the complexity of relationships during a rebellion and The Party’s obsession with power. The main character Winston struggles throughout the story trying to stay human through literature, self-expression and his individuality. The party uses human’s tendencies, weaknesses, and strengths in order to dehumanize their citizens to gain control over them.
In the novel 1984, George Orwell sets up a dystopia that reveals basic human qualities occur even when the people are brainwashed out of the,. This story takes place in an alternate society where life is radically different than what the world is today. The government has an extreme control on its people, brain washing them and suppressing every aspect of human connection. The citizens are taught to think that all information from the government is true even when it is blatantly obvious it isn’t. This novel allows the reader to witness the genesis of a primal love through the action of rebellion. Winston and Julia fall in love with each other as the book continues.
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 these questions I will analyze the characters while focusing on how the events in 1984 have made them who they are. I will also discuss the types of conditioning in the book and give examples of the conditioning. Then I will talk about some of the laws or regulations in the world today that I find to be not-constitutional. Finally I will define progressicism, socialism, communism and Marxism, and who founded them.
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell is about a totaltarin government attempting to destroy individuality. 1984 takes place in a oceania society driven by propaganda , that every citizen of oceania must interact with a daily intake of propaganda created by the government so that control is maintained. In this story Winston is on a mission to rebel against the people who dictate every part of his life i.e. “Big Brother”. Winston also on a quest to find someone to share is beliefs with. Today’s society has reflected on 1984 is many ways just different forms.
In order to escape and be free from the mechanism of control established in Nineteen Eighty-four and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, two character are presented. In Nineteen Eighty-four, a women named Julia aids Winston to rebel against Big Brother by having intercourse with party members and love affair with Winston. she elaboratly plans to have intercourse with many party members to satisfy her desires and in so doing this, she creates a group of rebellions among the party member. As for Winston, he courageously commits his first act of rebellion after purchasing and writing on the diarty in attempt to protest against Big Brother and to communicate his thought with future generations. Julia takes Winston to the Golden Country were they commit
In Part Two, the novel begins to pick up with Julia, a love interest to Winston, who finally gives Winston the love and comfort he needed, giving power to his rebellious side. An interesting characteristic of this surge of rebellion is the equilibrium it reaches in the beginning of Julia’s and Winston’s relationship. He found it easier to continue his facade, since he was no longer feeling lonely. However the difference between Julia and Winston is their two distinct sides. Julia also has a conforming side, but her rebellious side is not to rebel against injustice like Winston, but rather is rebellious for the pure spirit of the thrill of rebellion. She’s similar to a teenage girl disobeying her parents warning for the thrill of it, which is shown when Orwell states, “ 'Well, I wouldn 't! ' said Julia. 'I 'm quite ready to take risks, but only for something worth while, not for bits of old newspaper. What could you have done with it even if you had kept it? ' 'Not much, perhaps. But it was evidence. It might have planted a few doubts here
Few books have galvanized as much attention on the future of humanity as George Orwell 's 1984. In 1984, Orwell presents a bleak, brutally efficient apparatus that owes its existence to the unceasing oppression of the masses. Against this force, Winston Smith and his lover Julia are deviants desiring pleasure and free thought. This relationship between Julia and Winston is particularly vital to the novel 's success. Specifically, Julia is the crucial piece in the novel. Julia presents a contrast to the rigid demands, morals, and purity of Big Brother. Furthermore, Julia enhances our understanding of Winston through her disparate views on what constitutes rebellion. This is also the way in which Julia differs from what a reader might expect
But Winston thought there was something more dangerous about Julia than most women. At first, their relationship appears to be a political act of rebellion, Winston expresses that ‘their embrace had been a battle, the climax, a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.’ They both rebel against the control the Party has over their life, Julia’s rebellion taking the form of intimate relationships with men as she explains to Winston, “’Have you done this before?’
As Winston is captured by the government, he is told that there are three stages of his “reintegration”; learning, understanding, and acceptance. Winston refuses to betray his lover Julia until the last stage as he yells to his tormentors, “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia. Not me!” (300). , Orwell) Spewing such harsh and petrifying phrases about his past lover, showcases that Winston under the torment and oppression of the Party has capitulated and accepted Big Brother while breaking the final bonds of his romantic relationship with Julia. Instilling oppression on romantic love ensures that the citizens of Oceania love Big Brother and the government with their full capacity; confirming that the individual will never favour their loved one over the government. Once a courageous individual rebelling against the government, using his relationship with Julia as a weapon, now merrily a shadow of his former past, broken down by the oppression instilled by the government. By betraying his lover, Julia, Winston demonstratesions that the government has won. Contradictory to his initial feeling towards Big Brother, Winston’s love is now dedicated towards the government. In the aftermath of his “reintegration”, “[Winston] loved Big Brother,” (311) , Orwell) leaving no additional room in his damaged heart for Julia. However, Winston is not the only character who suffers with the decision of betraying their loved
O’Brien’s speech from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell describes the future of Oceania’s society under the Party’s rule. The underlying meaning behind O’Brien’s speech is that society will eventually be completely dehumanized by the removal of all basic human characteristics. This meaning is established through the use of repetition, diction, and imagery.
O'Brian is the physical antagonist in the novel, in the beginning of the book Winston compares him to a eighteenth century nobleman, which is proved wrong when it is revealed that he works for the Party and becomes Winston's torturer. O'Brian serves as the speaker of the Party and it is through him during Winston's torture that we hear from more less the source of the justifications behind the Party's conduct. He provides the reader with the Party's views of power, sanity, and on ideas such as double think, reality control. But by the end of the novel we learn that he is about as far from a nobleman as you can get, he is the manifestation of the Party's oppressive ideas.
Accordingly so, Winston’s relationship with Julia is about much more than merely rebellion against the party or even sex it is about trust, love, connection, security, loyalty and the face of mankind. It also is primarily concerned Winston’s honest attempt to achieve self