Winston Smith 1984

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is the ultimate negative utopia. Written in 1949 as an apocalyptic vision of the future, it shows the cruelty and pure horror of living in an utterly totalitarian world where all traces of individualism are being abolished. This novel was composed to denounce Hitler?s Germany and Stalin?s Russia and to create a warning to the rest of the world. It takes the reader through a year in the life of Winston Smith as he transforms from a rebel to a fanatic of totalitarianism.

“1984” is an imaginary novel wrote by George Orwell in 1949. The novel takes place in a fictional country called Oceania. In 1984, the society is a mess in the control of the “big brother”, people are leveled by three three classes: the upper class party, the middle outer class party, and the lower class proles. But the lower class make up 85 per cent of the people in Oceania. Winston is a outer class party member working for the “big brother”. This novel uses Winston as an example to show how the “big brother” takes the control by mind, manipulation and technology.

Mr. Charrington -  He’s an old man who runs a secondhand store. He encourages and seems to support Winston’s rebellion against the Party and his relationship with Julia after he rents him a room. He seems to share Winston’s interest in the past. He also is a member of the Thought Police.

Winston: He is an old, quiet, and intelligent guy. He works at the ministry of truth. Winston has a secret lover name Julia.

Winston Smith, a worker for the Outer Party is dissatisfied with how his life is going. He decides to take up measures to rebel against the government by writing in a diary and even committing the sin of “thoughtcrime”. During the novel, he encounters Julia, another woman who wants to help stop The Party. Together they fall into love, or at least what they perceived as love, and met in secret contemplating the fact that they could be taken prisoner any day. They do get taken prisoner and are betrayed by Winston’s friends. Afterward the outcome of their efforts had been in vain. He is manipulated and eventually changes his outlook on Big Brother. Orwell relays that one must be wary of change; change should be looked upon as bad if it is thought

Winston’s memories, relationships and interactions with others play a key role in his rebellion. Throughout the book Winston shows an affection towards Julia. Winston’s initial relationship with Julia is a political act, however over time he grows to care for her which is forbidden in his society.

George Orwell's anti-utopian novel 1984 paints a picture of a society in which the individual has no freedom, hope, or feeling. Three super states called Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, divide and ravage the earth with perpetual war between them. The story takes place in Oceania, which consists of the Americas as well as Great Brittan. Nineteen-eighty Four chronicles Winston Smith's struggle to fight against the forever-reining, oppressive social system called the Party. Throughout 1984 several central themes through which the Party controls its members unfold - the first theme is dehumanization, the second theme is encroachment of privacy, and third theme is subtle erosions of freedom.

Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell is a dystopian and pessimistic novel. Published in 1949, the novel intends to warn the world at large of the potential dangers of a totalitarian state. To make sure that the citizens are living up to the ideology, the party uses different methods of surveillance or mechanisms of control, like the telescreens, Big Brother, the Spies, the principles of newspeak and torturing its enemies. To subvert the control of the Party, Winston engages in an act of erotic sexual relationship with Julia and starts to write a diary for his heresies towards Big Brother. The novel will discuss these mechanisms along with the possibilities of freedom.

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

t has been sixty-six years since the first printing of George Orwell’s acclaimed book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Almost seven decades have passed and many still wonders, was Orwell right? Has our society become a totalitarian wasteland? Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel, taking place in what Orwell calls Airstrip One, or what is known today as England. When one closely observes the happenings in today’s world, one can see evidence of the Orwellian predictions that are established in the book. With those events, there are many parallels between Nineteen Eighty-Four and our society today with the usage of government surveillance, the decadence of language, and the annihilation of culture.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face—for ever.” In 1984 George Orwell shows the future as a place where you don’t have control of your life. The atmosphere Orwell creates in 1984 is a sort of controlling continuous unease depicted by imagery and suspense. The unease is not only felt by Winston, but also the reader because of the graphic details at times and the unsettling nerve of something about to happen that keeps you on your toes.

Her rebellion to the Party was not for the intent to overthrow it, but simply for her own amusement. While she was a member of the Anti-sex league, she secretly had affairs with many men. Winston’s affair with Julia gives him the courage to approach O’Brien about the Brotherhood, an underground group trying to overthrow the Party. However, eventually, both Winston and Julia are captured by the Thoughtpolice because Charrington was secretly a part of them. Orwell details the torture of Winston and the great lengths that O’Brien has

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, and he was famous for his personnel vendetta against totalitarian regimes and in particular the Stalinist brand of communism. In his novel, 1984, Orwell has produced a brilliant social critique on totalitarianism and a future dystopia, that has made the world pause and think about our past, present and future, as the situation of 1984 always remains menacingly possible. The story is set in a futuristic 1984 London, where a common man Winston Smith has turned against the totalitarian government. Orwell has portrayed the concepts of power, marginalization, and resistance through physical, psychological, sexual and political control. The way that Winston Smith, the central

Winston and Julia are two of the main characters in the novel 1984 set in Oceania Airstrip one , who are against the party and rebellious against big brother. Both Julia and Winston are rebelling against Big brother, but for different reasons. In the

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.