Colliding of cultures, national, regional, ethnic, religious, and institutional involving characters in stories are often used by authors. Such collisions, can cause conflict and also reflect the moral of a story. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, is a great example of a well-set collision in a story. Winston, the main protagonist, has many cultural collisions making him the most important and relevant character in the story. The most dominant cultural collision Winston has overall in the novel is, institutional. The reason being, Winston does not agree with big brother and the overall government that is sectioned off into parties where he lives. An example of his righteous feelings towards Big Brother is from a line in the novel saying, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (19 Orwell). In that specific quote, Winston is writing in his notebook timid that Big Brother …show more content…
Winston encounters many conflicts with this women named Julia, but he is blinded by love. Winston has plenty of sexual interactions with Julia and does a lot of illegal things with her, not caring about the risks or consequences. In this line, “You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again?” they both are interrogated to test their loyalty to Big Brother. Julia threw them under the bus by answering no and eventually they got caught and captured as mentioned before and, his once love betrayed him and did the same to her. Once again Winston response is very vague and naive towards his actions and so is Julia. This collision brings anger and suspense to the readers for both, Winston and Julia. They both have significance to the novel and the works as a whole because without them and the consequences, the book would not have the same ending or the fact that it is interesting and keeps the readers on the end of their seat wondering what will happen