The Love Of Winston In George Orwell's 1984

In the face of heavy situations or being under overwhelming pressure from the state or from one’s peers, I believe it is possible for an individual to keep hold of their own sense of truth and values under a certain amount of pressure. However, I also believe the person can lose their senses once a breaking point is reached. Despite the amount of heavy torture Winston faced in the Ministry of Love, he still had his own beliefs. With the fate of Winston, however, is all truly lost and overwhelmed by Big Brother? Or is Winston's fate a rallying point for humankind? Winston’s fate is a rallying point for humankind seeing that he was able to keep hold of his own mind despite the Party’s various methods of manipulation, and he was able to foresee

Winston at first hates Julia, because he believes she is spying on him and wants to report him to the Thought Police. One day, Julia gives a note to Winston saying “I love you”. They start a dangerous love affair which can get both of them killed or sent to a labor camp, but Winston and Julia don’t care because they have finally found someone who hates the Party as much as the other. O’Brien invites Winston over to his apartment to look at something work related. Winston takes this chance to confront O’Brien about the rebellion and he tells Winston that he is, in fact, part of the brotherhood and gives him a book to read about it. Right after he reads this book, the Thought police arrest him and Julia and send them to a government building called the Ministry of Love to torture

The language of this passage, illustrates Winston’s frantic thoughts and worries, by having long, and sometimes grotesque sentences, describing life, death, and suicide, the current topics circulating Winston’s mind. Prior to this passage, Winston’s had just had an encounter with the dark-haired girl, where he believing her to be a spy who was following him, contemplated killing her, but found himself unable to. In this passage he’s very overwhelmed by this past event and his thoughts are portrayed in long, sentences, that show the current hopelessness he feels. He thinks to himself; “On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues you are fighting are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life

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.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, the main character Winston Smith is similar to Edna Pontellier in the book The Awakening in the way they both possess “that outward existence which conforms, and the inward life that questions.” Winston, in 1984, outwardly conforms to the government, but secretly questions life on the inside and struggles with his differences throughout the story.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, our hero Winston Smith is trapped in a dystopian society in which free thought is not acceptable. There are telescreens, thought police, and loyal citizens everywhere who will turn you over in a heartbeat. Winston is not one of the loyal citizens. He questions why Big Brother (figure head of the government) is in control of everything and why thoughts are to be kept away from. This contributes to the tension of his outward conformity but inward questioning about the party and all it stands for.

Winston Smith arrived at his home at the Victory Mansions during a horrible blizzard. The house looked spooky with the smell of old cabbage stained throughout the halls and portraits whose eyes would follow him. Winston was a normal man, working at his job in the Records Department. Nothing really out of the ordinary. He is sort of pessimistic in some ways.

In the book 1984, telescreens are watching Winston’s every move. Picture number three relates to the society with no secrecy. There is a device with a red recording dot facing the people as they talk. The people inside the art look very reserved and detached. I can make that inference by the amount of space that the people have between each other. When Winston haves conversations with people, he tries not to let any emotion be shown.

Winston’s life is not even his own, being basically an existence based on the wants of the Party. Each and every day, Winston is woken for work by the Party issued telescreens. This occurs on all work days, forcing Winston to get ready, even if he is not fully rested. This constant feeling of anxiety gives the Party control over Winston. This control may not seem to have much effect on Winston, but by waking Winston up at a certain time, the Party is able to get more work out of him throughout the day. Winston is startled when, “the telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on the same note for thirty seconds. It was not nought seven fifteen, getting-up time for office workers.”(32). In this sense, Winston lives

Throughout the novel, Julia and Winston form a love connection. However, their relationship didn’t start off with love. Winston had a strong feeling of hatred towards Julia in the beginning of the novel. “He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian.” (Orwell, 15) He then realized that in order to show his hate for Big Brother, he must rebell in his own way and forcing himself to love Julia is the only way he knows how to do it. Part two chapter eight proves that Winston is very hesitant towards his love for Julia. O’Brien asks Julia and Winston if they are prepared “to separate and never see one another again.” (Orwell, 173) Winston was unsure of his answer for this and “did not know which word he was going to say.” (Orwell, 173) If Winston is unsure of his love, then it’s not love. He is just using love as a form of hate.

(Orwell, 64). Marriage is given low standards that Winston doesn’t see his as significant; a marriage where he constantly forgets that the bond even exists. This is also shown when Julia, who at this point in the novel has never had any interaction with Winston other than occasional eye contact, passes a note to Winston that says, “I love you.” (Orwell, 108). Julia and Winston do not know what love is, they jump into an affair learning to love which is then torn down by the Party.

Love Is Important In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, love is an undervalued term that means nothing in this society. 1984’s society is very strict and everyone has to live by Big Brothers rules. The main protagonist Winston has an affection that builds gradually on a girl named Julia. Three primary reasons why the theme, Importance of love connects to Winston and Julia's relationship in 1984 is, the first time when Julia and Winston meet and find a way to talk to each other, the physical level Winston and Julia take in their relationship, and death of them and their relationship.

Winston thinks that the only hope of change is among the proles, while O’Brien thinks that the proles will never revolt. Who is wrong and who is correct? Since we don't see any obvious uprising or rebellion in the book, we can't say that Winston is right, but the whole novel gives the readers an unsettled feeling that it seems a revolution is possible at any moment.

After being imprisoned, Winston starts to have special sessions with O’Brien. During these, he uses a type of shock therapy on Winston to show him the truth of the Party and how to oppose it. Winston is stubborn and refuses to believe anything O’Brien is telling him (Graves). The Party has absolutely no want to help the citizens lives. The main purpose is to authorize the citizens thoughts so that they will never go against Big Brother. The government controls everyone through fear (Miniter). If Oceania is at war with one of the other countries. is has always been fighting with them. If a nation changes allies and starts a war, past newspapers change their articles to fit in the new world order. When citizens change those details in their head,

1984 is becoming popular again because people are scared. People are scared of authoritarian leaders, governments abusing power, and the war crimes militaries commit to keep us safe. George Orwell’s book shows a world where all of these things happen. We are being spied on through televisions, phone calls, and anything else that connects to the internet, just like Winston Smith. These actions are deemed necessary because they protect the good people but at what point do we become the bad people? Winston Smith met his demise at the end of 1984 because he submitted to the system. Hopefully, we will learn the lessons Orwell was trying to teach us in his novel.