The Role Of The Ministry Of Politics

Winston is restless, and concerned. Hes afraid of getting taught by the Thought Police if they ever found out about him and Julia. Julia is a young, beautiful girl who lives the moment and makes best of life. She is more concerned on having fun than being being in trouble, caught, by the party.

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

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

“All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee appointed for the purpose, and though the principle was never clearly stated—permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another” (65). Members are forbidden to hold any love for one another, for it will distract them from their loyalty to the party. The Party attempts to remove love from marriages by taking away the pleasure of sex and the desire that married couples are normally able to have. Winston is married to Katherine; however, her whereabouts are unknown to him. Their marriage was based solely on the ideology of the government, “[Katherine} had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan...” (66). Engaging in sexual relations for both of them was un-meaningful. Winston specifically felt disgusting when performing sexual acts, he felt as if he were raping her when they engaged sexually. Katherine even though she despised performing such tasks, tried her hardest to have children for the Party. “So the performance continued to happen, once a week quite regularly...” (67). Katherine and Winston felt as if they were doing this all the benefit of those around them, and not for themselves. By making the act of sex so repulsive, it took the love out of their marriage. Overtime, since divorces are frowned upon by the government they

Before Winston met Julia, his body was wasting away and he believe he didn’t have anything worth living for. He started a journal and wrote “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” all over a page, even though he knew he would be killed for committing thoughtcrime (19). However, when he sees “the words I love you [on Julia’s note,] the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid” (91). Not only has Winston’s appetite for life returned because of Julia’s affection, but he becomes physically healthier as well. He “had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided… [and] his fits of coughing… had stopped” (124). Julia’s love strengthens Winston. After detailed planning to assure the Party could not eavesdrop on their date, Julia and Winston spend a whole afternoon in the countryside together and make love (98-106). This adventure is even more special to them because it is an act of rebellion against the Party, though they realize the fact they are able to be together is all that is important. Through each of their rendezvouses, Winston and Julia’s relationship grows stronger. Whenever they meet, “they [sit] talking for hours” (108). All the time they spend together leads

Described as “young”, “free-spirited”, and “practical”, Julia differs from Winston in many ways. She is open about her sexuality, and sleeps with several party members before she meets Winston. Although these acts are frowned upon in the eyes of The Party, Julia doesn’t intend them that way, and tells Winston that it is only to satisfy her own desires. Julia only “..questioned the teachings of the party when they in some way touched upon her life”(153). She was too young to remember a life that contradicted The Party’s teachings, and because she believed all Party propaganda to be lies, Julia had no interest in what those teachings were anyway.

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (part 1, pg 74) this not only foreshadows Winston, how he knew the truth about the party, rebelled, then chose to be ‘unconscious’ again, but also shows how one cannot be enlightened if they choose to be blind. In the first half of the book, Winston, in a way, was ‘free’, free in terms of understanding that the party was wrong. Once the party found out, they didn’t have a choice but to torture Winston into submission, instilling fear in him. This left him with the choice of having knowledge and death, or a twisted form of ‘happiness’ while being ignorant; “The choice of mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” (pg.

His job is to rewrite historical document to match the “Party’s” ideology. Winston likes the job because he could see the past. He also despises the Party and keeps a journal to write hateful message about the Party. One day a woman hands him a note that said, “I love you”. Winston and Julia start to have a relationship. They try to do it in secret so they wouldn’t be caught by the thought police. Winston hatred for the party grows and seek out O’Brien to join the rebellion. However, it was a trap by O’Brien and Winston and Julia are tortured. They are brainwashed. One day, they see each other again and Winston announce that he doesn’t love her and only love Big

The Party is also able to destroy love outside of marriage such as that between Winston and Julia. Their relationship begins as hatred, blooms into a fulfilling love, and then is transformed into indifference. The entire progression of their feelings towards each other is manufactured by the Party. During their first unrecorded meeting, Winston offers a "love offering" (100) by telling Julia what his feelings were before they 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 authorities into thinking that she was a good citizen also fooled Winston. As a result, he hated her for conforming so whole-heartedly like his wife did. But after he realizes that was just a facade that she put on to fool others, Winston falls completely in love with her. They take enormous risks to be together first in the countryside and then in an apartment rented from a prole. When the couple is questioned by O 'Brien before their acceptance into the Brotherhood, they quickly agree to commit a whole list of atrocities including to "throw sulfuric acid in a child 's face," to "commit murder," and even to "commit suicide" (142) if doing so would help destroy the Party

2. The meaning behind Winston's journal entry is that the proles will choose to rebel when they feel the absolute need to. Also that the proles need to become aware of the fact that they are being subdued to go against their society and government first before they can make that decision. They are too wrapped up in their own lives that until they finally start to see the world more clearly, they will not rebel.

Winston believes that the proles are the people who could stop the party. He believes that the proles are the hope and force needed to destroy the party. The proles are the working class of Oceania and they make up 85% of the population. The proles are kept dependent on the party, yet they do have some independence because that are free to do what they please. They are not imposed for many behaviors that other party members would be imposed for. “Promiscuity went unpunished; divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it. They were beneath suspicion. As the party slogan put it “Proles and animals are free” (Orwell, 72). Orwell is trying to inform the reader that the proles were treated completely different from the Outer Party. The flexibility that the proles have could have lead them to overthrowing the party. In Oceania, the party was split into the Inner Party, the Outer Party and the proles. The Inner Party is the upper class in Oceania with many privileges that the Outer Party does not have. In addition, although the Inner Party had privileges, they were not free and were under total control similarly to the Outer Party. The Outer Party was the party Winston was a part of. Orwell wants to give reasoning why the proles are capable of overthrowing the party because they do not have as many restrictions as

After starting an affair with Julia, he tries to communicate with her, but his efforts are futile. As only a “rebel from the waist down”, she’s unable and unwilling to effectively communicate and understand Winston’s thoughts. After learning of her multiple affairs with others, he hopes of the possibility of communicating with them of his beliefs and possibly gaining enough strength to encourage the proles to revolt. Without the ability to connect with her previous affairs, Winston’s forced into isolation within his own minds like many others with only the party’s doctrine to guarantee him

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

The two main character of this novel; Winston and Julia both happen to be nonconformist to this society. In their own distinctive way, they both go against the dreadful rules of society. Winston has his diary which sets him on a mission to rebel against the Party. On the other hand, Julia commits minor acts of rebellion such as engaging in sex and wearing makeup. However, both Winston and Julia can not conform to The Party’s principles, even though The Party devotes substantial resources for detecting these specific people and subversion over them.

Physical and mental restriction include a world void of any intimacy between two people and of family loyalties and close friendships. “The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act” (65). Anything that could disrupt loyalty to the Party was a threat and must me eliminated. Love is a powerful act that can destroy the power of the Party. All marriages must be approved by the Party. If the Party senses a physical attraction between the two, the marriage is denied. To the Party, the