In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, one man by the name of Winston is caught in what seems to be a human drive to escape the power of Big Bother as he wonders why the government works behind closed doors and separates in different ministries such as the ministry of love, peace, plenty, and truth. His mentality is that people need to know what is going on outside of Oceania, and that history is not controlled by superiors in the government, but through its original author. In this regard, Winston is an outcast because he thinks differently from everyone else. He also believes in independence and that everyone should be their own individual, not a marionette. This paper will summarize the struggle that Winston faces to ultimately tries fulfill…
At the end of novel, Winston has completely changed; he no longer feels love for Julia and most of his emotions are dead. All he is left with is his love for Big Brother. Winston, the main character of the novel, starts out as a normal Outer Party member who is not much different from any other Party member. He wears the required overall blue Party uniform and works at the Recording Department in the Ministry of truths (his job is to fabricate information to support Big Brother), and eats disgusting synthetic food in the canteen every…
A 39 year old man by the name of Winston Smith is a part of the Outer party. Oceania has three social classes: the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. There are four ministries that the government is divided into: the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty. Winston writes in his diary about what had occurred that day and his thoughts about it, but is afraid that the Thought Police will find the journal he is writing in.…
1984 is a book about a man named Winston who lives in a society where you are constantly watched, much of the news is lies and you are constantly at war. Winston knows that anything the government tells him is a lie and that the war Oceania, the country Winston lives in, is constantly fighting is pointless. Winston later on meets a girl named Julia who he at first hates, but as she shows that she also sees the lies Winston comes to love her and they join a secret group called The Brotherhood that fights Big Brother, another name for the government. Winston tells us the reader that he doesn't enjoy to watch the public hangings even though many of his colleges love to watch them. He buys from local shopkeepers even though that is not to be done even though the party has few supplies.…
George Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Smith, is just one of many in an era of modern antiheroes. He represents all that is undeniably average in a world wrecked with an oppressive government and a constant state of war. However, this plays to his advantage by making connecting and empathizing with him easier. His rebellious nature ensures an ability to be endowed with the bravery to defy and push the limits of the Party’s authority.…
For Winston in 1984, Julia is his goddess. It is through her that he discovers a new love and desires for life. “The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal” (2.4). With Julia, Winston becomes tied and finds new meaning in his life.…
Winston Smith, the protagonist for George Orwell’s 1984, is a heroic character. At least according to George Orwell’s definition: “ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed”, Winston is a hero. He is an everyday man, doing what little he can to improve the world, and others. Even if he is powerless, he tries anyways. In that way, Winston also serves a relatable character to the reader.…
Despite the restrictive, deceptive, and controlling nature of the world he lives in, Winston is still able to recognize that life is grossly unjust. The only way Winston has of knowing this, he says, is “the mute protest in [one’s] own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions [one] lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different” (Orwell). Winston desires to replace his “world of lies” with “a world of sanity” and equality (Orwell). And to create this new world, Winston is willing to do nearly anything and everything. Referring to the Party, Winston once reflects that he would gladly “have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis” if he could have done so, saying that he would do “anything to rot, to weaken, to undermine” (Orwell).…
Winston Smith as a Flawed Hero Within the first few pages of George Orwell’s 1984, one can determine that this is not a normal place by any means. One’s mind starts to paint the scene of a cold, dark, and gloomy place where a uniform society exists. At first, this so-called Oceania, seems very distant with no current relations to the world we live in today, but the one constant within the two is what it means to be a hero. Overtime the concept of a hero hasn’t changed in itself, but the deeds people do to claim the title have certainly altered with circumstances.…
He is captured for his defiance against the government, but he still wants to believe there is a brighter future. He does not want to let go of his beliefs. The guards in the Ministry of Love beats, tortures, and humiliates Winston in hopes of drawing out any possible thought of defiance. When this does not work, O'Brien labels Winston as “mentally deranged” and says he “suffer[s] from defective memory” (203). In Winston's society, being anything other than a puppet at the government's disposal makes one insane.…
Do you ever feel like you need to do something but you just don’t know what it is? Imagine this, but if you don 't figure out what it is, you get physically and mentally tortured. This is what happens to Winston Smith in 1984 after he has been caught going against his government 's ideas. Since Winston is tortured physically and mentally, he has no choice but to conforms to the Party’s ideals.…
Additionally, the Party in Oceania had redefined love, and therefore effectively brainwashed its people into following Big Brother, and Big Brother alone. At the end of the book, it is revealed about Winston, “He loved Big Brother” (298). Relationships with people are destroyed because of this propaganda and because the citizens are taught that complete loyalty to Big Brother is the equivalent of love, they blindly follow the path set for them. Even Winston, who held out against the Party’s control, succumbs to the powerful word manipulation that exists in Oceania when he admits to loving Big…
Winston smith rebels against the party as he has a love affair with Julia, rents Mr.Charrington's, wants to join the brotherhood, and buys a paperweight. To begin, Julia and Winston's relationship are a form of "ownlife"(Orwell 82) which is a direct rebellion against the party. The “sex instinct [creates] a world of its own which [is] outside the Party's control and which therefore [has] to be destroyed if possible. ”(Orwell 132-133).Winston and Julia engage in a powerful political act that Winston considers to be a “blow struck against the Party” (Orwell 126). Therefore, for Winston and Julia, the act of having sex is an emotional release which helps them rebel against the Party.…
Society has always thought that it had the freedom and privacy it was enlightened to have in the United States of America. Most of society has not been enlightened with knowledge that they are most likely being watched all the time. Just like in the novel 1984, by George Orwell, the citizens are always being watched and have no privacy for themselves. Privacy is something that individuals greatly value but do not truly consider until it is taken away. The totalitarian government 's need to control, manipulate, and subvert the rights of its citizens in 1984 mirrors the United States government operation today.…
Brought into the Ministry of Love, Winston is endures torture and mind control in effort to invert his mindset. He battles to resist O’Brien’s influence and maintain his individuality. Winston’s attempt and constant struggle to remain in control of his fate is evident through his relationship with Julia, his memories, and through his logic as O’Brien molds Winston, through manipulation, into the perfect citizen. Firstly, Winston, as he enters the Ministry of Love, is a prime example of a deviant citizen…