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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. Typically, heroes are meant to possess powerful or indestructible traits, but Winston…

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” This quote by Bob Dylan, relates strongly with George Orwell’s novel 1984. Winston Smith, the main character, in 1984, tells the novel through third person limited point of view. The story begins with Winston Smith describing his constant surveillance by BIG BROTHER and throughout the novel the reader witnesses Winston’s struggles against the government that controls the ideas and thoughts of its citizens. As the reader comes to understand…

Big brother is a power that forced fear and protection over all of Oceania. The party which is the inner works behind big brother helps keep everybody in a straight line and not stray away from what the party says is so. Big brother has been made the face of fear and tyranny and has enforced a lot of unfair laws on the people of Oceania. Some people think that in 1984 big brothers surveillance is as advanced as some of our technological appliances today. In today's modern world of technology I…

implemented in Oceania, London whom administer harsh regulations prohibiting unnecessary thoughts, such as the feeling of love, banished writing, and a plethora of other laws. The first book of 1984 exemplifies the control the government has over Winston…

compassion, and intimacy are not permitted- two people manage to find each other. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston and Julia are an unlikely match who would likely be incompatible in a normal, “free”society. While they are united in their passionate hatred for their society’s government (known as “the party”), they are complete opposites in their vision to overthrow or rebellion of it. Winston has a different view on the party than other people, he works at the Ministry of Truth so he…

veterinarian because I was sad about my science class dissecting an owl pellet which contained a mouse skeleton. In junior high school, I wanted to be a lawyer because of the controversial Jena 6 of Louisiana. When I initially became a student of Winston Salem State University, I wanted to become a registered nurse due to bad service my grandmother was receiving while she was in the Intensive Care Unit. Throughout the years, I knew that I wanted to work in a helping field to benefit others,…

hatred for “The Party”. Winston Smith attempts to prove his worth and determination to throughout the book that he is a threat to “The Party” and Big Brother. As for his lover, Julia, is one who stays in the back, rebelling in ways that please and satisfy her. Both Winston and Julia aren’t shown as the rebellious types, but, prove the readers and party members by showing their hatred towards “The Party” by committing rebelling in different ways but were both ineffective. Winston Smith, a quiet…

Orwell reveals the effect Big Brother’s regime is beginning to have on Winston through the imagery present in this scene. In this scene, Winston imagines what the future will hold, especially in regards to O’Brien’s potential as an ally. “‘We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness,’ O’Brien had said to him.” The lack of darkness is used by the author to convey a hopeful tone of voice. The absence of darkness allows for the possibility of light to enter, in this case, darkness…

In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist is an ordinary man by the name of Winston Smith. Throughout the novel, Winston struggles against the tyranny of Big Brother and the Party, both inwardly and eventually outwardly. However, by the novel’s end, Winston is discovered and broken by the Thought Police; his struggles are proven to be in vain. Still, despite his failure, Winston is undoubtedly the hero of the story. George Orwell’s definition of heroism is “ordinary people doing whatever they can…

present in Orwell’s imagined utopia, Oceania. In his critically esteemed novel, 1984, George Orwell creates a perverse utopia in which totalitarianism thrives and the ruling power vanquishes the social rights of civilians. The dystopian novel follows Winston, the thirty-six-year old protagonist of the story, and his journey to survive under the Party’s rule in London. The nominal leader of Oceania, “Big Brother”, serves as a symbolic figurehead of dominance and control under the Party’s…