Symbolism Of 1984

In 1984 George Orwell uses many symbolic objects such as the paperweight, the prole's, big brother, and telescreens to assist the readers in a deeper understanding of the book and its purpose. When Winston Smith, the main character, purchases the glass paperweight he represents the struggle in

Julia and Winston awake in a cell, tied next to each other. The deadening, filthy, horrid cell inside the Ministry of Love. Winston focuses and regains full concentration. He shakes Julia and brings her to the identical state as himself. They both look at each other, with determination to finish things forever.

First, the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop is one setting that conveys a sense of trust for Winston and he continues to return to this spot to meet with Julia. The major reason for the perception of safety the room provides is there is no telescreen in the room. Winston feels he has the freedom to go about what he pleases and the concern of being caught is relinquished once inside the safe sanctuary. The book quotes, “The paperweight was 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.” “So long as they were actually in this room, they both felt, no harm could come to them.” He is

It is evident by the first chapter that Winston is not a fool, yet intends to play jester in public and continues the act in private. Winston is trapped in his own thoughts and is in dire need of an escape. He finds this evasive escape in the empty journal from Mr. Charrington. Winston’s diary doesn’t just represent a place where he is left free to throw his empty thoughts, it seems to be more. Winston’s secretive scraps of paper represent a place that the Party has not discovered. A place where he can think peacefully without the overbearing weight of the stress of his life or death daily performances and the rebellious thoughts confined and trapped in his head. The diary is similar to the prole apartment that Julia and Winston share. Winston desires a place that has remained untouched by the powerful influence of Big Brother. Winston and Julia have an elicit affair at the flat, which is punishable by the Party. Winston reads by himself and to Julia a book that has been neither altered nor approved of,

Another important point is that the lack of a telescreen in the room above Charrington's shop, is where the fear of being seen stops for Julia and Winston. They

Jacobs made a strong argument about the body representation made by Orwell in his book, especially in the character of Winston. This seemed to be attributed to the fact that Orwell was dying when he wrote the book, so the story included his “personal failings” (Jacobs 14). Since Winston’s resistance did not win in the end, and he was overcome by Big Brother, the book seems to tell that resistance is doomed. This is especially true in the last two sentences in Orwell’s book in which he wrote, “He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (376). Referring to Winston’s loving of Big Brother as victory over himself was like Orwell telling the readers that minds can be broken under torture, and that this pain could make the mind think of betraying loved ones. When Winston was tortured with his greatest fear, the rats, he said, “Do it to Julia! Not me! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones” (Orwell 362).

Initially, Winston develops thoughts in his mind, with what he believes about Julia being with the thought police. His fears of the telescreen, which leads to Winston being afraid of the party and being caught for his thought, which develops the internal conflict.

Winston Smith is a thirdy-nine-year-old intellectual, fatalistic, frail and a thin man which is the minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London. We experience the nightmarish world that the writer envisions through his eyes. Winston is extremely pensive, curious and desperate to understand how and why the Party exercises has such absolute power in Oceania. He passionately hates the totalitarian control of his government and the Party. He has his own revolutionary dreams.He wants to test the limits of its power and he commits crimes, have an illegal love affair with Julia to get himself secretly into the anti-Party Brotherhood.

1. “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up…There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any moment.”

In the novel 1984, written by George Orwell, “Big Brother” is the face of the party in control of the dystopian society of Oceania. Big Brother plays the role of what might be considered the most important character in the novel; without this character, the government would have much less control over the public. It is because of Big Brother that Winston and Julia get themselves a private apartment, and it is also because of Big Brother that they get caught later in the novel. He is shown to be “larger than life” as Winston Smith is told that Big Brother exists as the embodiment of the party, and can never die. In a sense, Big Brother symbolizes the party

In his novel 1984, George Orwell writes of a utopia-gone-wrong with many things resembling that of life under a dictatorship. Throughout the novel, the readers follow the main character, Winston, on a journey of self-discovery while finding out the truth behind the forever watching eyes of Big Brother. In this dark and twisted dystopia, there is an organization entitled The Junior Anti-Sex League, which is an organization to promote celibacy. Julia, Winston’s love interest, proudly displays the scarlet sash, an indicator of a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, around her waist to make her devotion to the party known. Of all the symbols in the novel, the scarlet sash representing purity and celibacy worn around the waists of the Junior Anti-Sex League youths is the most puzzling and intriguing.

Although he should have known that his rebellious thoughts would never succeed, However, Winston’s betrayal to Julia is the event that caused his own self-betrayal. After O’Brien introduces Winston to Room 101 where he will be tortured, he gives up his hope and betrays Julia, by begging the interrogators to let her suffer the torture instead. He knows that he must betray Julia to save himself, “There was only one and only one way to save himself. He must interpose another human being, the body of another human, between himself and the rats" (299). While Winston and Julia were in their cozy sanctuary above Mr. Charrington’s store, they discussed the possibility of getting captured, and they agree not to betray one another. However, after Winston finds out that he could easily betray Julia, he accepts the Big Brother in the bottom of his heart and gives up all his previous thoughts of rebellion on Big Brother and the Party, “He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" (311). Winston feels joy over his love for him and the great

book, living in a one-bedroom apartment. Smith is miserable and keeps an incriminating journal of all negative thoughts of the Party, if caught Smith will be vaporized, he will become an unperson. One day in the office he noticed a dark haired woman staring at him, she is “Julia”. Smith hates her, he desires to rape her and murder her. Winston feels she’s a member of the Thought Police and that she is spying on him ready to denounce him. Her youth and decorative Anti-Sex League (Party League that degrades on the pleasures derived from sexual intercourse) sash disgusts him. Months later Winston bumps into Julia and she slips a note into his hand; the note says “I love you”. They make arrangements to meet and

The dystopian novel 1984, written by George Orwell, depicts the life of Winston Smith as he lived it in the year nineteen eighty four. Winston is a low-ranking member of an entity called the Party, the governing body of the city of London. The Party is represented by a single figure known as Big Brother, an all-knowing and an omnipresent factor in the lives of those that follow the Party. Although no one knows who he truly is, Big Brother still holds tremendous weight in the lives of Party members. The structure of the government in the novel mirrors the principles of Marxism, an economic system that focuses on the means of production and class struggle within a given society (Jakse ).In 1984, George Orwell uses key principles of Marxism to convey the Party’s ability to naturalize its dominance over the inhabitants of Oceania.

The novel 1984 is a futuristic totalitarian society where everyone is kept under close surveillance and is forced to follow all rules and laws of the state. The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell and published in 1950. The main characters were Big Brother, Winston Smith, Julia, O’Brien, Syme and Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith is a low man on the totem pole when it came to the ruling Party in London, Oceania. His every move is watched by the Party through devices called telescreens. Posted everywhere around the city is the face of their leader, “Big Brother” informing them that he is always watching. He works in the “Ministry of Truth” which is ironic seeing that they alter history to fit the liking of the Party. As this book continues Winston challenged the laws and skirts around the fact that he is always being watched. His shocking and rebellious act is “falling in love.” Throughout this novel George Orwell utilizes symbolism to further enhance the totalitarian features of the society. In many ways these symbols represent the things that this society hasn’t experienced and doesn’t understand.