Contradictions In George Orwell's '1984'

1. The contradictions in 1984 War is Peace and Ministry of Love serve on a grand scale of that the Party has the power to manipulate people into believing whatever they feed them. With their propaganda slogan war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength is all one huge contradiction in itself. They want them to believe that war is peace or equals that they are the exact same when they are exact opposites, they try to imprint the freedom is slavery when freedom is defined as one’s own desire to act on their own, when it is the complete opposite of slavery not being able to create your own thoughts, desire, and actions. The role contradiction serves within framework of doublethink is that the people are seeing the contradictions …show more content…
The significance of Winston’s dreams is placed to expand Winston as a character to help the readers relate and understand him more. The dreams he has is used to express both the guilt that he is harboring as well as his rebellious side. For example in the book the dream where O’Brien says, “we shall meet in the place where there is no darkness,” is to place a bit of hope in Winston. Since Winston believed that O’Brien was the pathway to freedom, he thought that meeting in the place where there is no darkness is when the party is officially destroyed. Where they were no longer oppressed, the people can think for themselves, that is the place where they would meet, or at least where Winston hoped to meet. The dream of where Winston’s mother and younger sister disappear is the feeling of his guilt, believing that he had killed them somehow that he was the reason as to why they were dead. Orwell would devote much time into Winston’s dreams because no matter his guilt, or rebellious side his dreams proved to be false. There was no place in the darkness where the people would be liberated and not oppressed anymore but the opposite. Same goes for his guilt for having thought he had killed his mother and sister, he confessed to Julia that he believes he did …show more content…
Julia influence on Winston was significant she influenced him in actually going against The Party in the nature that he wanted to. She was a person who was able to get into Winston and was able to get him to show and become his true self which was really hard to do in Oceania with all of the restrictions. She influenced him to not hate women as much as he did before they met we could see that when he meet the prole and we as readers could see his thought process and how the things he thought about women significantly changed into a more positive and respectful way. He didn’t have the aggressive nature he did in the beginning of the novel towards women as he did later on. Initially, I did trust Julia, and the more I got to know her even after they started meeting I trusted her even more because I thought Julia was one of the good ones and that she was there to protect and help each other. Overall I feel Julia had a positive impact on Winston’s and I also think Winston had a positive impact on Julia. She made Winston feel love for the first time. She resulted him in feeling an emotion connection to someone, she made him a human