POV In 1984

Point-of-View – is the perspective or mode in which a story is being told. The individual narrating the story is someone the author of the story invents, so that he or she will tell the story for the ones reading it.

Life in Oceania is dull, lifeless and described as ‘swimming against the current’. Orwell creates a dire feeling of hopelessness through his destruction of friendship, family, love and individual thoughts. Love and sex are no longer accepted under the totalitarian regime and Winston is therein forced to suppress all his sexual desires treating sex as merely a procreative duty. His marriage to Katherine was purely ‘[their] duty to the Party’ whose end was the creation of new party members. This shows that in a totalitarian world it is wholly necessary to adhere to the constraints enforced by a government not only for personal salvation but also for the survival of the entirety of the human race.

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

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)

The pursuit of freedom and the longing for a better life and “knowledge give people power, and truth will set people free” are the common understanding of the human nature. In novel, the Oceania’s Party controlled life in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear through the four ministries of Peace, Love, Plenty, and Truth. Winston’s job at the Ministry of Truth involves revisions of historical documents and rewrites of news stories to reflect the Party’s infallibility. Because the Party was afraid of historical knowledge will form power that justify or encourage the present and the future. If history was idyllic, then people will act to re-create it; if the present was nightmarish, then people will be to subvert the present in order to create a good future. The fact of the matter, the Party, which carries out government policies in Oceania, rations food, issues clothing, and selects social activities. Both chocolate and tobacco are in short supply during this latest war. Public facilities were in shreds and patches, and most of people live in poverty. The

We must also consider the fact that Winston does not believe it to be possible for the Party to be “overthrown from within.” This is due to several reasons as well. Just as The Ministry of Truth has its hands in media, romanticizing the persecution of those who have committed thoughtcrimes, they also manipulate education; raising Oceania’s children as perfect party members. At an early age they are indoctrinated into an organization called “The Spies” in which they are taught to keep an eye out on not only their neighbors, but their parents as well. That, in addition to the presence of telescreens and Thoughtpolice make it extremely difficult for dissidents to pass their revolutionary ideas to the future generation, “[the Party’s] enemies had no way of coming together or even identifying one another.”

In 1984 Winston is described as a major, protagonist, and dynamic character. Winston is the main character in the novel, Orwell creates an atmosphere where the reader is in Winston’s mind which helps the reader to better understand him and the world of Oceania in his eyes. In the

First of all, the Party in Oceania strives to control every aspect of its subject’s lives and thoughts. It is very apparent by the use of doublethink and the perpetual forced viewpoints and ideology of the Party into its members. The Party has absolute control over the people for they “... control matter because we control the mind” (Orwell, 265). This gives way to causing Winston a great deal of problems for he believes he can rise against the Party, but in fact it only

Nevertheless, the reader finds himself rooting for Winston because he is the “right” in a “wrong” society. The intended audience of this book does not see Oceania as a free society because, in Western culture, people need individualism to be free. This book depicts a society in which individualism is in every way prohibited. Therefore, Winston seems to stand out as a hero

This shows how even the most rebellious people in Oceania can fall victim to torture and brainwashing at the hands of this inhumane government. Prolonged torture can influence anyone to do unthinkable acts. Eventually, just the threat of torture is sufficient enough to make Winston desert his once defiant thoughts. It is a truly horrible moment for the citizens when Winston succumbs to the Party’s torture, and is ultimately eliminated by the Party. Taking a little ounce of hope of freedom for Oceania with him. Granted, it brings the story full circle in warning the reader about how far a government is willing to go in order to maintain power over its citizens.

However, Winston is a living illustration of the antonym of a hero, for a myriad of reasons. The society that Winston unwillingly resides in is inscrutably an evil place, a vapid void of meaninglessness, with the citizens greatest aspiration being mediocrity. This quicksand of a society is called Oceania, a place existing as an allusion to tyrannical and imperialistic societies of the world during World World II. It is ruled by Big Brother, the enigmatic figurehead of the Party.

Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it.” (3) This is what makes the people not do what they want to do because big brother is always watching them the party has everyone under control and this is why they believe that what they say is real. The people do not know any better because everything was taken there’s no other history to them and if the thought police suspects you as trying to find something or breaking their rules they will arrest you. Winston believed that 2+2=4 but the party believed that 2+2=5 when they captured Winston O’Brien made Winston believe 2+2=5. “There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?” “Yes.”

Each Ministry has a profound effect on Winston as he works for the Ministry of Truth and is physically and emotionally tortured by the Ministry of Love. Clearly, each section of Oceania is placed into a specific Ministry by Atwood, which allows the writer to develop a strong and cohesive thesis. The thesis should incorporate three Ministries and how

Society ridicules both the types of people, the virtuous and the immoral and or morons. This is of course with varying degrees and depends on the context. Society is in a sense hypocritical and very much bipolar, society can look upon you in desirable fashion, but in another context and or situation in profound disgust. It merely depends on the context of the whole ordeal as not all vices are created equal, just like all wholesome, righteous and angelic acts aren’t either. It’s all so subjective as well and changes with the region, time, your sex, your socioeconomic status, who your family is, your aesthetics, or in a more elementary term, your context.

George Orwell's 1984 is written from a third person perspective-in this case, a selective omniscient, focusing mostly