How Is Winston Presented In The Book 1984

In the beginning of 1984 Winston sets the scene by giving information about his surroundings. When he goes to help Mrs. Parsons, light is given to the junior spy league, which both of her kids are in. Later he is called to work at the ministry of truth, where he “fixes” and destroys documents in a fashion they know one realizes that it doesn’t exist. At the hate, he meets eyes with O’Brien and knows he wants to rebel too. He also sees Julia who will later become his love interest. Winston wanders to the area of the proles in search of the shop he bought his forbidden notebook from. It was left in its original condition unlike almost every other building. He soon rents it for him and Julia because of its lack of a speakwrite, a recording

In the novel 1984 by george Orwell, Winston Smith is an anti-hero because he openly challenges society, realizes the corruption of the party, and is ultimately brainwashed at the end to conform to formenity. As the novel began to progress

The highest people or person that holds power can be taken down. In the novel ​ 1984 by George Orwell, Big Brother and The Party are a totalitarian government, but can be taken down by their citizens. People like Winston who think differently and know the world is different will come together and make a difference. The Fall of Big Brother will be either a non-violent protest or a violent fight. Winston and Julia are people who are thinking differently and disobeying the laws of Oceania, Winston wants to remember how things were back then but Julia is more focused on taking down the party somehow.

In 1984 the citizens of Airstrip One are frightened to live a normal life and emotions. One thought against The Party can lead to their death or for them to be "vaporized''. The Thought Police are good at manipulating and getting into their citizen's mind to cause terror. In Oceania even thinking of love or a woman's body can cause an excruciating amount of pain on the offender. In part two chapter one Winton, the main character sees the girl with the dark hair in a sling then fall. The interaction between the both of them can cause severe punishment.

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 Smith believes that hope for the future lies in the proles because it's their rebellion that can bring down Big Brother, and Usher in the change of the government. Proles ,proletarians, working class, and comprise make up about 80% of the population. Also Winston sees proles as happy workers who are not smart. Although they might not be that smart the workers are free from scrutiny and constant morning party. Smith hates Big Brother and the numerous restrictions it makes a difference on the party workers. He works in the Ministry of Truth which is responsible for altering and editing

The party use destruction and rewriting of history maintain the control over the citizens in the society. The slogan of ‘the Party’ within 1984 reads: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,”. The party use the destruction and rewriting of history to gain a complete sense of control over the citizens of Oceania within the present. Within history, there have been multiple cases of dictatorships creating the past rather than recording it, Josef Stalin famously had his allies censored from his photograph, after falling out of favour with them. We see evidence of the rewriting of history through Winston’s career in the ‘Ministry of Truth’ ironically named, due to the nature of the work.

The first character we were introduced to is Winston Smith. We see that in his house there is no power & that the government cuts off the power during the day. By this I assume that he is poor/in the struggle and he’s trying to make his way through life.

Even though he is married, he and Julia have an affair that combines their personal desires as well as their desire to fight against the Party as it is explicitly stated in the novel. Winston and Julia both willingly participate in the affair because they are both moved to action by the Party’s acts of injustice. Winston is aware that the Party has blatantly outlawed “love” and Winston wants to feel romance in order to spite the Party. Both Julia and Winston would do anything to spite Big Brother. In addition to the love factor, Winston isn’t just participating because Julia is youthful, more so because he is drawn to the act of power. Winston isn’t just resisting power, he feels the need to hold

Although he faces dehumanization by the Party, Winston is able to retain his human rights through his relationship with Julia by utilizing his senses, recalling his past, and creating a private lifestyle away

Winston Smith makes an attempt to not conform to society and take a step toward change. Winston seems to be the only character with individuality until George Orwell allows him love and brings in Julia. Winston slowly gains confidence throughout the novel to make moves against Big Brother and tries to join the Brotherhood. He constantly mentions that his demise

When Orwell introduces Winston Smith, he does not describe some special chosen hero ready to liberate the world of repression. Instead, he describes a regular man, living life in this tough world. Winston “was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle” and “went slowly” because of his frail deposition (Orwell, ch. 1). Orwell begins the novel describing Smith’s weaknesses, like his older age and his health problems. These details quickly clash against what Smith is about to do, something that is punishable by the thought police. In a book, which was “a compromising possession”, he was about to “open a diary” (Orwell, ch. 1). Although what he was doing was not illegal, “if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death”, since INGSOC never said their citizens could have a diary. He began to write trivial things in his diary, like movies he

The character of Winston Smith is developed as a

In the beginning of the book, Winston inwardly believes that Julia is an amateur spy or a member of the thought police. during the two minute hey, let's and thinks that “her [Julia’s] real object had been to listen to him and make sure whether he was shouting loudly enough.” (Orwell, 61) Winston also said, “I wanted to rape you[Julia] and then murder you”(orwell 120) Winston questioning Juliet's true intentions show his distrust for her and him wanting to rape and murder her shows how Winston has a strong hate for Julia. Winston's view of Julia also shifts. This is exemplified when with his having a mental breakdown at the end of the book. He screams, “Julia! Julia! Julia, my love! Julia!" (orwell, 280) Not only did this outcry show his love for Julia, it also put Winston in great danger, Winston questioned how much time he had added to his servitude with that show emotion. The shows another major change in Winston character. He goes from being very suspicious of Juliet the risking a lot just to call for her. This perspective shifts shows how much Winston changed during the book, he is crying out for someone he said he wanted to rape and kill earlier in the

The world in which Winston Smith lives in is very frightening. It is very unlikely that people from the world we live in would survive for long living in it. I think it is an awful time to be alive because you have no freedom at all. Winston is in the worst possible position, he is in the Outer Party. He is being monitored at all times and he can only cooperate. It seems that the proles and the Inner Party are much better off. I think that this is true because nobody cares about the proles and they can do what they want. The bad thing about them is that they are very poor and have no money. We don’t really know much about them. Maybe just like any other animal they have adapted to the bad conditions and somehow they are