Celine Le
Mrs. Hamilton
British Literature 3
11 January 2016
Book Report: 1984
The title of the book is 1984 by George Orwell. It takes place in the city of London in a futuristic country now called Oceania in April 1984. The novel covers a time span of a couple months. Winston Smith is frail, intellectual, and contemplative. He is the protagonist in which he hates the government as totalitarian. He works in Records Department at Ministry of Truth. Julia is Winston’s lover. She is dark haired and works in the Fiction Department at Ministry of Truth. She is optimistic and lives for the moment. She is a member of the Anti-Sex League yet has also slept with many members of the Party. Big Brother never appears yet is everywhere, “BIG BROTHER IS …show more content…
Julia however is more concerned with her self-interests and pleasures and only focuses on that rather than the entire spectrum of the world. She lives for the moment not the future. Big Brother is behind the entire government although he never appears, his presence is everywhere as the ruler. As the antagonist his presence alone is an obstacle for Winston. Winston in the end has to give up his dream and learn to accept the current world that he lives in since he doesn’t not have as much power and authority to change anything, which was how the world worked as unfair as it was. Julia ended up being with O’Brien since he made Winston give her up. Big Brother still remains as the powerful ruler in which Winston has to learn to …show more content…
The external conflict in the novel is between the government and society and how everyone is pretending to be happy and okay out of fear from the government. The internal conflict is with Winston against the government from brainwashing him and making him unable to decipher which is the truth or what is wrong or right. The main problem that Winston faced throughout his journey is that determining who he could trust and who he could not since he never know who could be pretending to be a member of the Brotherhood when they can be a spy from the Party. The climax of the story is when O’Brien sends a note saying he wants to see him, in which Winston has been waiting for. Never did he know that O’Brien was a spy of the Party and made him give up Julia and also captured him into torture and brainwash. O’Brien put him in a cage of rats to torture him since he had a fear of rats. After being tortured and brainwash, his past aspirations and dreams were changed completely. In the end, Winston was released back into the real world where he then found himself to accept Big Brother after being psychologically altered by O’Brien. He also got to see Julia
Mrs. Hamilton
British Literature 3
11 January 2016
Book Report: 1984
The title of the book is 1984 by George Orwell. It takes place in the city of London in a futuristic country now called Oceania in April 1984. The novel covers a time span of a couple months. Winston Smith is frail, intellectual, and contemplative. He is the protagonist in which he hates the government as totalitarian. He works in Records Department at Ministry of Truth. Julia is Winston’s lover. She is dark haired and works in the Fiction Department at Ministry of Truth. She is optimistic and lives for the moment. She is a member of the Anti-Sex League yet has also slept with many members of the Party. Big Brother never appears yet is everywhere, “BIG BROTHER IS …show more content…
Julia however is more concerned with her self-interests and pleasures and only focuses on that rather than the entire spectrum of the world. She lives for the moment not the future. Big Brother is behind the entire government although he never appears, his presence is everywhere as the ruler. As the antagonist his presence alone is an obstacle for Winston. Winston in the end has to give up his dream and learn to accept the current world that he lives in since he doesn’t not have as much power and authority to change anything, which was how the world worked as unfair as it was. Julia ended up being with O’Brien since he made Winston give her up. Big Brother still remains as the powerful ruler in which Winston has to learn to …show more content…
The external conflict in the novel is between the government and society and how everyone is pretending to be happy and okay out of fear from the government. The internal conflict is with Winston against the government from brainwashing him and making him unable to decipher which is the truth or what is wrong or right. The main problem that Winston faced throughout his journey is that determining who he could trust and who he could not since he never know who could be pretending to be a member of the Brotherhood when they can be a spy from the Party. The climax of the story is when O’Brien sends a note saying he wants to see him, in which Winston has been waiting for. Never did he know that O’Brien was a spy of the Party and made him give up Julia and also captured him into torture and brainwash. O’Brien put him in a cage of rats to torture him since he had a fear of rats. After being tortured and brainwash, his past aspirations and dreams were changed completely. In the end, Winston was released back into the real world where he then found himself to accept Big Brother after being psychologically altered by O’Brien. He also got to see Julia