Madeline LaRossa October 24, 2012 C07789454 Potential Outcomes of Progress: Orwell’s 1984 1) Summary of the Book 1984 is an eye-opening novel written by George Orwell. Orwell wrote the novel in 1949 to outline how he projected society would be in 1984 if progress continued upon its current track. Orwell published the book as a warning that society must be careful about progress for progress’s sake, or conditions could end up similar to the way society is in his work 1984. The novel is divided into three chapters, or books, each with multiple subunits, and these sections tell the story in chronological order. The book ends with an appendix on the principles of newspeak, the new language of Oceania. The novel follows Winston Smith’s …show more content…
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. The second chapter starts with the dark-haired girl slipping Smith a note at work saying that she loves him. The two eventually make secret plans to meet far out in the country, and Smith learns that her name is Julia. The two eventually do meet and have sex hidden out in the countryside, simply for the purpose of pleasure and defying the Party. Julia and Smith then return to their respective homes, thinking themselves undiscovered. Smith then rents a room above the shop where he previously bought the paperweight. Julia and Smith meet in the room whenever possible to have sex and share in the contraband food and drink they are able to obtain. As the citizens prepare for a large political movement supporting Oceania in its ever-going war, O’Brien makes contact with Smith and arranges a secret meeting between the two, confirming Smith’s suspicions about O’Brien’s disloyalty to the Party. Winston and Julia continue to meet in the room above the shop, and eventually, the two go together to meet O’Brien at his home. O’Brien turns off his
Julia and Winston return to the district and enter Winston’s room. They begin carving on the back wall directly in the Telescreens’ line of sight. Ten or so minutes later, the wall reads “DOWN WITH O’BRIEN”.
Winston has been repressed from any sexual activity and having Julia has brought many ideas into his head. He is both scared and excited from thinking about her and is not sure that it is the right thing to do. Winston is also scared that she would leave him if he doesn't get to know her in a timely fashion.
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
The story continues when O’Brian arrives himself to take Winston, he than reminds him that all along, he knew what would happen, that he is already dead and also that they will meet here in “ the place where there is no darkness”. During his time ( he does not know for how long is he here) in Miniluv, he was tortured in the worst way possible, made to confess to crimes against the Party, and then comes the part when O’Brian arrives to work on the limits of Winston’s memory. (Bloom,
Sadly, Winston never discovers the why. Rather, he gets tormented. Be that as it may, before the tormenting, he and Julia are caught by the Thought Police. Turns out that mystery concealing spot wasn't so mystery all things considered. The cheerful couple is then conveyed to the Ministry of Love, where crooks and adversaries of the Party are tormented, questioned, and "reintegrated" before their discharge and extreme execution. O'Brien runs the show similarly as Winston's torment sessions are concerned.
She doesn’t agree with some things about the society she lives in, and falls for Winston. They got a room that they used as a hideout, and they almost acted as husband and wife whenever they were in that room. Eventually they are caught and arrested. Winston was sentenced to die by having a mask on with a rat in it that would eat through his face. He yelled for them to do it to Julia instead of himself.
At first Smith was unaware that anything was wrong at all and operated on normal schedule without any thought that what the government was doing was wrong. However, soon Winston becomes upset with the limitations on his life, from the cheap Victory Vodka, Coffee, and Cigarettes, to the mandated uniform that he must wear at all times, and finishing with the mandated evening events ranging from bingo to drinking sessions. The realization of the power of the governments control opens up Smith’s eyes and allows him to see all the limitations the government employs through societal norms in order to enforce control. This knowledge prompts Smith to rebel against Big Brother in order to gain the freedom that he believes he is
The Party also destroys love outside of marriage between Winston and Julia. Their relationship begins as pure hate, blossoms into a satisfying love, and then is altered again into disinterest. The entire development of their feelings towards one another is composed by the Party. During their first unrecorded meeting, Winston offers a "love offering" (100) by telling Julia what his feelings were before they had ever met "I hated the sight of you... I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards" (101). The mask that Julia put on to fool the government into thinking that she was actually a good citizen fooled Winston as well. In result, he hated her for be obedient like Katherine had been. But after he sees that
After trying to join an underground group fighting Big Brother with his lover, Julia, they are both caught and taken to the Ministry of Love, which is essentially a type of prison. Winston is tortured for an unknown period of time, and undergoes physical and mental corruption. When he nears the end of his time, he is taken to room 101, where his worst nightmare is held, and he can only be saved if he betrays Julia. In order to save his own life, he does. Winston then goes into a dreamlike state where he remains until he is truly in love with Big Brother.
Winston and Julia do not completely love each other. It is like they would rather love one another more than actually having the physical and emotional connection only because they relate to each other. They are also very determined to stay together. When O'Brien, an inner party member, asked if they were would be willing to be separated, they both refused. “When they are together they know that they are not alone. It is a human need for companionship and you cannot have this in the party's society.” (BBC) In Winston and
That is precisely why he also dislikes her, but his feelings are completely transformed after one interaction. While walking, Julia and Winston literally bump into each other. She falls to the ground, and as Winston helps her up, she secretly slips a note into his hand. He waits until a safer time to examine it and is shocked to find it read, “I love you.” This note starts a forbidden relationship.
Analysis 2: The setting of the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop symbolizes the theme of rebellion through the relationship of Winston and Julia. The party considers that the love for one another is forbidden since everybody has to love BIG BROTHER. Winston and Julia’s relationship is one of their ways to rebel against BIG BROTHER. The “pocket of the past” refers to the free reign that the people in the past were given, and “extinct animals [can] walk” displays that Winston, who considers himself as “extinct”, can live his life with his lover, Julia knowing that the party will not know about their relationship. Winston develops his act of rebellion through his relationship with Julia and focuses on doing other rebellious
Julia: She is Winston's lover and she send him a note proclaiming her love for him. Winston and Julia meet in the countryside. She participated in Junior Anti-Sex League Community hikes and she desires break the rules to have fun.
At the beginning of Part II, Chapter II, Winston comes to realize that human beings do not have to be constrained by the thought control methods of Big brother in the restricted confines of the city. Julia is a member of the Junior Anti-Sex league, but Winston soon finds that she is an anti-government rebel, much like himself. In
and Susan communicate and express their sexual desires to one another because it is still an