Pessimism In The Party In 1984 By George Orwell

Towards the end of Orwell’s novel that presents a dystopian society, the antagonist, O’Brien, a close member of the inner party, warns Winston, the protagonist and one of only two reasonable people left, that “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them” (319). Winston, who has been taken prisoner for his political dissent, receives this grave warning tied down to a chair with O’Brien’s face staring at him from above. This alarming solution to the infamous mystery frightens Winston a significant amount, who after sacrificing so much, has just learned his fate. Orwell has brought about this fate to emphasize the perpetual triumph of the party over its enemies. In George Orwell's 1984, the author creates the totalitarian state of Oceania to warn the reader of the potential corruption and oppression of such a government.

Ever since the founding of the United States of America on July 4, 1776, the desire for more or less government intervention has fluctuated among both politicians and the common people, thus creating the Republican and Democratic Parties, originally named as the Federalist and Anti-federalist Parties. Nonetheless, given that the current President is a Democrat, surveillance and government intervention has only increased, especially since the terror attacks at the World Trade Center on September of 2001, and the recent attacks in San Bernardino, California, Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, therefore creating the notion that our society is gradually becoming similar to that of Winston Smith's in George Orwell's 1949 novel, “1984”. The notion

George Orwell's 1984 What look on humanity and human nature, if any, can be seen through this book, 1984?

Once caught, Orwell writes that Winston must undergo a form of drastic mental “treatment.” “You are mentally deranged. You suffer form a defective memory…fortunately it’s curable”(Part 3, Chapter 2). O’Brien describes Winston’s mind as the same way Freud would diagnose a patient with a disorder. Winston in fact goes under a similar process that closely relates to the psychoanalytic treatment. “We gather in detail what the peculiarities of the Unconscious are, and we may hope to learn still more about them by a profounder instigation of the processes…”(Freud 324). According to O’Brien, Winston seems to have developed a mental disease that causes him to have delusions. Winston’s dreams, which Freud considers “a highly valuable aid into psycho-analysis technique” and an “insight into the unconscious,” are put under inspection and further investigated by O’Brien to study and gain knowledge of how to “cure” Winston’s mind. It is then when Winston’s nightmares of rats gives O’Brien the key component to understand how he will strengthen Winston’s ego and superego according to the views of the Party.

In George Orwell's novel 1984, we explore intimate human relationships, as experienced by the protagonist Winston Smith. Not many bonds are stronger than those developed among family, friends, and lovers. In Oceania, those bonds were made but they've always had a dim side to them, since the only thing you could openly be loving about was the Party and Big Brother. This limitation was one of the most necessary in order to achieve complete power and control over the citizens. The reason for this limitation was the never-ending need of the Party to dissolve all loyalties derived through sex, love, and family and redirect them to the Party itself. Another limitation enforced by the Party was the destruction of trust. The Party invaded the trust between parent and child, co-workers and most importantly between man and woman.

He demonstrates this idea through Winston’s psychological failure to cope with the cruel reality and what Big Brother wants. The dystopian society in 1984 not only governs with total control over the people, but also fundamentally restricts people’s ability to think freely. The government dictates this domination through the power of the “Thought Police.” Winston on the other hand struggles with severe internal conflicts. Orwell articulates, “He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side” (Orwell 25)? What Orwell is expressing about the dystopian government is that they are spreading nonsense beliefs using fear out of people. He uses simile to expresses Winston’s internal conflict in the totalitarian government when he writes, “he felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom.” Orwell is comparing an intimidating world that Winston confronts with the idea of doublethink. The “forest” is a place where one gets lost and the “sea bottom” is a place where only darkness exists. Orwell further support the idea of doublethink when he says, “lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster,” using situational irony.

Orwell made this book for the purpose of cautioning the future generation of the course society is leaning towards. Winston tries to rebel in a world where the bad guys can predict everything you will do. That is why he failed. Orwell wanted to show that you can’t rebel if your core personality isn’t strong enough to handle the unimaginable difficulty of this feat. orwell doesn’t have a bright look on the future. He doesn’t have hope for the world because he knows humans will choose ease of living over freedom. Winston was the perfect character to portray an average person trying to rebel in a bleak

Winston knows right from wrong, but is extremely reckless. He knows that everyone who is a thought criminal eventually is captured. This did not matter to him; he did the crime anyway. He knows that thoughtcrime can not be covered up for long.(Orwell 19) He is terrified of being caught, yet he told an Inner Party member everything. This shows that he is not the best at keeping secrets. He never really thinks out a situation; this leads him to make rash decisions. Something as harsh as thoughtcrime should be well planned, because these decisions can mean life or death. Winston wrote in his diary, “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”(Orwell 28) Winston knows that these crimes lead to death many of times. This scares him, and he wants to

The city of Oceania is so deprived of their freedom, that even thinking is considered a crime. This crime is called “thoughtcrime” Winston realizes that he is not like the others so he begins to write his thoughts in a

Winston Smith lives in a dystopian society called Oceania where the Party and Big Brother controls and regulates every citizen. During the required morning exercises for his work, Winston contemplates about the powers held by the Party and starts to accumulate such fear. Merely analyzing or disobeying the party in an individual’s thoughts is called “Thoughtcrime” and is punished by death, however, Winston has already accepted his foreboding fate as he starts to see the true corrupting nature of the Party. In this passage, Orwell personifies the Party by implementing human-like actions of a hand forcefully breaking through the barrier of the past. However, Orwell takes the personification a step further as he also symbolizes the party with

The passage starts with a quote Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Whatever the Party holds to be the truth is the truth,’” says George Orwell. From my knowledge of the book and by reading the title, I predicted that the passage would try to persuade the reader to believe something that isn’t true. I proved myself right by reading the first sentence, which starts with a lie.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the totalitarian government is adamant that all citizens not only follow its policies, but wholeheartedly agree with them. In order to maintain his individuality and avoid the Thought Police, Winston lies about his allegiance to the government and his beliefs and thoughts. He learns that his lies are weak and shallow after he is caught, and he eventually realizes the true power of his lies when he deceives himself. The totalitarian government Orwell presents encourages deception as a means of survival, increasing the government’s power when the citizens are eventually driven to lie to themselves. As the Party grows stronger and individuality crumbles, Orwell displays the loss of humanity as a result of a government built on deception.

The Book 1984 was written by George Orwell shortly after W.W.II. I think this book really shows us what would happen if the government gets too powerful. It was written long ago and set in the future, but I feel like the message is still very relevant today.

In this part of the book Winston is talking about how he commited a thought crime by writing the book and that eventually he will get caught and killed. This takes place in his home and he is thinking about writing the diary and thinking about the conquences of it. He mentions what happens when you commit a crime; he says that you will get arested at night and they will pull you out of the bed and you will never be remembered, and lastly youll get vaporized.

Hopelessness, deep and gaping ever lasting hopelessness. If the course of humanity fails to change, to this everyone will succumb. That is the message that George Orwell has left for the future, and it would be in humanity's best interest to heed. Winston Smith of 1984 lived in a world that had been consumed by the everlasting abyss of injustice. Eventually this world became too much for our hopeful protagonist and thus, like the future that is bound to a horrific fate, he succumbed. “It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it” (Orwell 248). No one in this world is any different than Winston, they will follow his path like all of those before them, following the five stages of Kübler-Ross. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance make up the cycle that every feeble life will follow and that Winston grew to know all too well.