How To Write A Summary Of 1984

Not only does the Party harness the use of multiple devices to reinforce their surveillance measures, but they employ a secret police and an undercover organization to eliminate possible dissenters. The secret police of Oceania, known as the Thought Police, have the capability of observing and punishing “thoughtcrimes” through the use of psychology and technology:

This chapter starts off by him walking to work when Julia falls in front of him, while she hurted her arm. Winston noticed that her arm is in a sling so he helps her up even though he thinks that she is part of the Thought Police. And Winston thinks that she is against him because of that. But she falls on purpose and slips a folded piece of paper in his hand, and she continued walking acting like nothing happened. Winston waited to open the note, when he opened it the note said “I love you”. For the rest of the day Winston could not focus he was bust trying to find a way to meet her. In the next few days he sees her in canteen but he couldn’t really speak to her because there was no privacy there. They finally get a chance to talk they plan to meet up at Victory Square, and Julia wants to meet privately. While they stand together they hold each

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

Correspondingly, the basis of any speaker’s arguments is logos or the logic and reasoning behind their views. In order for the party’s message to be accepted by Winston, they must first analyze and understand the his current views. Winston Smith, above all, values honesty and the truth. The protagonist even goes as far as to root his own reality in objective truth: “Freedom is the freedom is to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted all else follows.” (Orwell 81). As an anti-historian of a sort, Smith’s purpose is to reshape history in accordance with the party. Though, when he catches the party in a lie he begins to understand that there is no objective truth in his society. The parties lies are the reality for all citizens of Oceania- the fictional nation in which 1984 is set. Winston believes that if a human being uses their own natural logic and comes to the conclusion that two plus two equals four even if the party says that is incorrect- they would still be free in the terms of individual thought. Big Brother and the party’s main focus is to destroy any semblance of free and objective thought

The author introduces the readers to the current governmental situation and the current way of life within Oceania. There is a brief description of the main character, Winston Smith, along with his current feelings on the government status. “Big Brother” is an absolutely praised idol. (Pages 1-5)

Winston Smith is given a strange yet intriguing book from O’Brien called The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein after telling O’Brien that he is a rebel. Winston is told that this book will help him understand more about the “Brotherhood” and opposing the Party. In this book, Goldstein supports the idea of the government manipulating society. He talks about why Oceania is really in a war in a comprehensible and understanding way so all people can realize how corrupt the government actually is.

In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith secretly rebels against the Inner Party in London, Oceania. Oceania is one of three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Big Brother, Oceania’s leader, fools Oceanians with false propaganda, but the protagonist disbelieves his false claims, acn chooses to write a diary. This activity is forbidden in this corrupted superstate, and if found it could result in deathly circumstances. Along with another rebel named Julia, they joined the Brotherhood which is a secret, underground organization led by emmanuel Goldstein. Julia and Winston were eventually caught by the Thought Police and tortured for opposing the Party. The couple learned that the Inner Party just wants pure power all for themselves. After

A politically weak Winston doesn’t understand the full effects of rewriting one paragraph so that it shows Big Brother – the leader of the Party – as correct on a speech concerning an issue involving a war that Oceania was involved in. By rewriting this speech Winston makes Big Brother look more credible and allows him an easy opportunity to gain more political power, creating more class distinction and greater oppression from the Party. Being both financially and politically powerless, the average people of Oceania are clearly in a lower social class than those at the top of the Party and are forced to lead strictly controlled lives.

Chapter one of 1984 is understood as the introduction of the novel. The main character is a man named Winston Smith and he is one among many of the totalitarian workers. His home, a ram shackled apartment building called Victory Mansions. Thin, frail, and thirty-nine years old, Winston is an insignificant official in the totalitarian political regime that rules all of Airstrip One. Airstrip one is the land that was called, “England” but is now under attack by higher-leveled residence. Winston’s life is under the Party’s oppressive political control. In the community, Winston lives in a room with a telescreen that does not turn of and is equipped with cameras and mics, which results in Winston’s constant privacy. Winston has a journal where

The protagonist of the story 1984 is Winston Smith, a quiet 39 year old member of the outer party who works at a place called the Ministry of Truth in the Records Department. This place is to rewrite and alter history.

The Party uses telescreens to monitor and to observe the people of Oceania. The people do not need to experience out for themselves. They have designed a “2 Minute-Hate” in this two minute session people are to come together and sit through the session and listen to what the Party needs to say. The party uses telescreens to promote a common enemy to the people. The people are able to express anger to the enemy and cheer when the Party has done something great.

This book starts in London on April fourth, 1984. The book is written in partly third person, and partly in first person. The book is divided into three distinct parts. The first part is showing you the main character, Winston Smith and his differences and frustration with the world he works and lives in. The country or the “Super state” he lives in called Oceania is run under a government called INGSOC (English Socialism). The leaders of the nation are called "The Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner Party, and The Outer Party. The "Rich" and the "middle-class." There is a third group of people called "The Proles," or "The Proletariat" who are the lower class or the poorer class. The main leader of this government is called “Big Brother” and there also a very famous conspiracy theory about a traitor of the state by a person called “Emmanuel Goldstein” who was part of the inner party and then betrayed the state. The book is about the life of Smith with his frustration towards the government and the society he lives and the journey he embarks on from hating the party to finding comfort in another party worker and to eventually falling in love with big brother. The book is divided into three parts with the first part explaining the dynamics and structure of the new world. The second part focuses on how Smith finds solace by committing “though crime” as his act against the party and finally,

Besides the Inner Party, Oceania is struck by poverty, and other horrid living conditions. Along with the thoughts of the Thought Police, “There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork”(Orwell 3). The residents of Oceania were kept ignorant so they would always love Big Brother. Thought police watched the minds of citizens, without them knowing, to ensure the love of Big Brother in all people.In some cases, when a person knew they had committed a thought crime, the fear of being vaporized haunted their minds. Winston suffered from this for years without being caught until his crossed Mr. Charrington’s path. Winston did not realize his crimes or hate for Big Brother until he began to fear the Thought Police reading the thoughts that even scared him. He believed his feelings towards Big Brother were neutral until, “His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth page, printing in large neat capitals- DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER… over and over again, filling half a page”(Orwell 18). This showed how it did not matter how much restraint you had every citizen would show hate for the Inner Party sooner or later. For the Inner Party’s brainwashing was not full proof allowing citizens to have deep hatred. Later on Winston had come into contact with O'Brien who told him to join the infamous organization, Brotherhood. O’Brien confirmed that the suspicions of the Brotherhood were and later on he would obtain an explanation for all of Big Brother’s rules, “The heavy briefcase that he was carrying bumped against his knees at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg. Inside it was the book… “(Orwell 179-180). As Winston read through Goldstein’s book, he only gained conformation on his uncertainty, but learned

Before reading 1984, I was unsure of my opinion on the statement, “Those who would exchange freedom for security deserve neither,” but after reading, I agree. No one should willingly give up their freedom, a basic human right, just to make sure they can live safely. In the book, 1984, the party members didn’t even have the choice to think outside of what the Party wanted them to think. On page 27 Winston wrote, “Thoughtcrime is death,” meaning if a Party member considered, for a second, that they should go against the party, they would be killed. Winston lived in world without freedom, for all Party members, and anyone who read 1984 should know that without freedom we are not human. My view changed because before the statement confused me,

The Party naturalizes the dominance that it has in the way that it constantly conducts surveillance on its members. Through the use of devices called telescreens, the government is able to observe every movement and sound made in the homes of members, on the streets of Oceania, and in the workplace. These telescreens act as modern day webcams and make the government privy to all things going on in the city. The footage transmitted from these screens is monitored by the Thought Police, and it is this government body that determines whether or not one is guilty of a crime. Since the members of the Party are so accustomed to being constantly