The Difference Between Winston And The Society In 1984 George Orwell

Within the novel 1984, the Party has perverted many traditional human values. The Party has distorted the minds of the citizens of Oceania so that they believe what is happening is right. The Party has destroyed the value of true family, honesty, loyalty and love. For example, the Party encourages the breakup of families. In fact, the protagonist in 1984, Winston Smith, drifted apart from his wife, Katherine, due to the Party’s distortion of family. The Party told Oceania citizens that “the only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party” (65). Katherine took this advice to heart. Katherine did not enjoy the sexual act of marriage, she did it as she called it “’our duty to the party’” (67). However, because she could not bear a child with Winston, they parted.

The theme best presented in George Orwell’s 1984 is freedom is worth fighting for. According to the novel “1984” by George Orwell, the text states, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” This evidence supports the theme because it shows that freedom is being able to make decisions on your own without anyone telling you they are wrong. Orwell also states, “If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then? But no! His courage seemed suddenly to stiffen of its own accord.” This evidence shows that Winston is ready to do whatever it takes to get the freedom he deserves because he is realizing how restricted the rules can really be. This therefore proves the theme is freedom is worth fighting for because in his world, the party is very controlling. This is what makes Winston want to fight for his freedom. The novel “1984” also states, “And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious,

Winston sees Big Brother two different ways in the novel; for almost the entire novel he hates everything that Big Brother is. Then in the end, his view of Big Brother in changed completely, and then matches everyone else’s view of Big Brother. In this way the reader is able to see how there are similarities between the two sides of God and of Big Brother.

The main character in George Orwell’s book 1984 is a thirty-nine year old man with the name of Winston Smith. Winston Smith creates thought crimes, he also has anti-Party views. The story “1984” tells about all of Winston Smith’s struggles. In an effort to avoid being monitored, Winston physically conforms to society, however mentally he does just the opposite. Winston is a thin, frail and intellectual thirty-nine year old. Winston hates totalitarian control and enforced repression that are characteristics of his government. Winston hates being watched by Big Brother. He always has revolutionary dreams, he feels like he would be protected. Julia is Winston’s lover, a beautiful dark- haired girl working in the

In the society of Oceania where privacy is non existent, where thought police is ready to catch anyone acting unloyal to the Party and where the citizens are indoctrinated to conformity and perpetual love towards Big Brother, there may feel like there is no hope for change. Apart from many other of his comrades, Winston disagrees with the Party and all of its values (INGSOC, doublethink etc.). Winston believes that there still is hope for change but in the meantime, for the means of his own sanity and survival, Winston chooses to live rebelliously against the Party and he makes this evident in his behavior. One example of this is Winston's’ purchase and use of a diary, “His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large

Winston's Predicament in 1984 The dystopian world George Orwell created for 1984 is a bleak, emotionless place, grey shaded and foul smelling, full of hate and distrust. The humans that inhabit it do not live, they are simply expected to exist for the good of the sinister Party, a totalitarian government, while their leader gazes down at them from every wall, watching their every move. One of these humans, and our protagonist, is Winston Smith. His problems when simplified may seem like the problems of any other person: his lack of freedom, his repressed emotions and his desperate loneliness.

The Party has complete control over documents and history, this allows them to change the past, present or future to make previously said facts more believable or truthful. One of Winston’s jobs in 1984 is to change documents from the past to make facts from the present true or predictions of the future more truthful. For example, during hate week, an announcement was made that the previously given information, that Oceania was at war with Eurasia, was false. Oceania was actually at war with Eastasia and Eurasia was actually an ally. Winston, along with everyone in his workplace, had to make sure that the records were all correct. They all worked non-stop until all of the ‘evidence’ of false history had been thrown out or changed. “... Oceania

1984, written warningly by George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Blair, involves main character Winston Smith, a member of the “Party,” strongly resembling communism, in a nation named Oceania. The Party is referred to as “Big Brother” throughout the entire book due to the governments over-bearing control- no free thought, relationships, or expression of individuality is allowed, excessive spying- Big Brother watches everyone via “telescreens,” a device planted in every room, including bathroom stalls, and spying on your thoughts which creates a new crime known as thoughtcrime, and even rewrites history- erasing any recollection of the past and controlling the language so far that no part of vocabulary includes rebellion or anti-governmental ideas. Winston then becomes fed up with the oppression he’s faced

A commonly known proverb describes how “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” Similarly, a society as a whole cannot progress forward if members of the group lag behind; especially not if those who are holding them back are trying to go against the flow as much as possible. As evidence to being, in a way, unreasonable, Rorschach from Moore’s Watchmen and Winston from Orwell’s 1984 seem to parallel one another in their inability to accept their environments and in their similar determination to get what they want.

The first impression of Winston is a weak, worn down individual. His body was getting older, as illustrated by his limited ability when participating in the daily stretches. Orwell only explains his physical characterization in the beginning and end of the book when he is being tortured. The middle of the book is more focused on characterizing Winston's mind. The reader is constantly wondering how many rules Winston is willing to break at the risk of torture. At first is seems as though his follower-type personality will only let him risk

In Orwell’s book 1984, the Party can choose to alter any written piece of history and convince the general population to believe in what the Party considers true. Orwell explains the process of altering historical facts and how the Party can manipulate information such as the standard of living and current wars. At the Ministry of Truth, Winston is one of many workers who process different pieces of information to edit and eliminate facts that contradict the Party’s interests. He explains, “Not only can the party alter facts, but it also can eliminate any proof of existence of certain people using this process. Thus, it is almost impossible for a person to know if there were any people who ever rebelled against the Party. Second during Hate Week, it is announced

What is a hero? It can be anyone from a demigod in a myth to a parent who checks under the bed for monsters. Generally, a hero is someone who shows courage and moral goodness in the face of adversity. In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts the life of Winston Smith, an everyman working for the Party as a historical revisionist who attempts to overthrow the oppressive government of Oceania. Despite his attempt, he could not easily be considered a hero with his unimpressive characteristics, the flaws in his behaviour and his eventual failure against Big Brother.

Winston’s life is replete with misery and pain, but has been give brief moments of happiness and love by Orwell to create a sense of hope for Winston, and subsequently, hope for a future free of the imprisonment of totalitarianism, although Orwell makes clear throughout the novel that there is no happy ending. Totalitarianism does not allow the possibility of such an ending to thrive in the minds of people; If Winston were to escape this fate, Orwell’s definition of totalitarianism and everything that encompasses it would have been lost. Orwell has written the book in a way that the readers become so attached with Winstons character that he gains a form of individuality that can only be given by the reader. Winston is a symbol of the values democracy, love, peace, freedom, and decency which are found within a civilized society. When the character of Winston is destroyed, these values and connection to the reader are also destroyed with him as Winston Smith is a representation of the struggle faced between bad and good in every aspect of

"To say 'I accept' in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder" (Bookshelf I).

My impression of Winston is that he is a sorely reserved and tense person. He does not seem eager to engage with people around him, which he seldom does unless he has a reason to, such as attempting to not attract suspicion. While he is at work, the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, it is obvious that he does not really associate with any of his coworkers. Sure, there is Syme, but Winston calls him his friend with contempt, and his image of Tom Parsons is like that of a feeble-minded dog whose concern is limited to its keeper, which would be the government run by Big Brother. There is also Julia, who Winston is both repulsed and attracted by, and eventually I start to think of him as someone who contradicts themselves. Indeed, Winston