Essay Winston's Predicament in 1984

George Orwell’s 1984 follows the journey of 39 year old Winston Smith living in a dystopian future society called Oceania. The people of Oceania are controlled and oppressed by the Party and omnipresent Big Brother. Cameras controlled by the infamous thought police watch the residents every move, and free thought and speech are forbidden. Winston, who has a mundane job rewriting history, meets Julia and the two begin a forbidden affair. Eventually the pair are caught by the thought police and tortured for weeks. The torture is designed to destroy reason instilling individuals with a newfound love for the party and Big Brother. Eventually Winston cracks, when faced with the option of having rats eat his face or betraying Julia he chooses the latter; this act of submission concludes his rehabilitation, Winston is released back into society and now loves Big Brother.

Winston is trying to do what he can to help his society. This is a commentary on our world

Winston Smith one of the main character from Orwell 1984. Winston is a frail old man that often has troubles getting about of bed without having a coughing attack when he wakes up to do is daily morning exercise. Winston perceives himself as a guy that doesn't believe in everything Big Brothers say and do and often thinks for himself. Winston keeps a diary in the walls of his room. He uses his diary to right down what happen that day and what he was thinking that day. He wrote in his diary “until they become conscious they will never

The first appearance of Julia or the dark haired girl, Winston was weary of her. He thought she might be a member of the thought police. The moment Winston saw her, he hated her. She was young, pretty; her Junior Anti-Sex League sash was a scarlet color and accented her hips. Making her seem more attractive. Wonston hated young, pretty girls because they were the face of the party, a role model for Big Brother. The best party members were pictured as young, attractive people. Since Winston hated Big Brother, he hated her too. During the two minute hate, there is a moment when w=WInston transfers his anger to Julia. “He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.” (Orwell, 15) In this moment Winston realized he hated her because he liked her, he wanted her. But because she was in the Junior Anti-Sex League, he wouldn't ever be able to have her. HE blames the party for this and it only amplifies his hatred and frustration towards the party.

Throughout the progression of 1984, Winston becomes more rebellious towards The Party. What started as simply writing in a journal, turns into radicalism. As he is more involved with Julia, Mr.Charrington’s Shop, and the Brotherhood, Winston begins to believe in his own human intuition, rather than the values of his society. For a moment, it seems as if Winston will be able to overcome the pressures of The Party. Though as the reader we hope he succeeds, Orwell uses Winston’s failure to warn his readers against unduly government indoctrination.

One day, a black haired woman whom Winston hates (because of her wearing a red sash a symbol of virginity since Winston hates purity) gives Winston a message saying that she loves him. They eventually get in a secret affair avoiding the supervision of The Party. They rent a room above a store where Winston bought his diary. They meet there every once in a while. They have conversations about The Party and controversies about The Brotherhood.

In the book 1984, the author makes me admire the character of Winston Smith. He is introduced to us as defiant towards the rules of society. Winston acted differently than everyone else who lived in his community. He had thoughts that the Party was all wrong and was feeding everyone lies about history and current events. He had trust issues towards the Party. Some other attributes Winston has is his fatalism and rebelliousness. He hates the Party, and throughout the novel, he commits various crimes in an attempt to test the Party’s power. An example of these crimes is when he wrote “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his journal and also his unlawful relationship with Julia. One of his biggest acts of rebellion was when he indoctrinated himself into the Brotherhood, an anti-Party group. After Winston’s interaction with O’Brien at his home, he comes to the realization that he will never be able to get out of his rebel stage and will end up dying a rebel because of his actions towards the Party. This is an important event that sets a mood for the rest of the story.

Winston Smith in 1984 has a fatalistic and pessimistic view on life. Through his job, Winston is able to gain an insight at how the Party manipulates the people. He believes that he knows what is happening but in reality, he has only realised the first layer of deception. His arrogance and foolishness causes him to look down at the ‘devoted drudges’ who operate every day unknowingly being controlled by the party. He believes that Syme will be taken away soon because he ‘is too intelligent’ and speaks too ‘plainly’.

Winston Smith lives in a dystopian world in George Orwell’s 1984. Everyone is constantly being watched and love is not allowed to exist. “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing” (Orwell 3). In today’s day and age, society is not completely in this 1984 setting, but will be in the near future.

From the beginning, Winston already had an idea of what emotions he possessed. He hated Big Brother and was excited for the downfall of the Oceania government. For someone who had never entirely felt love, Winston had done a remarkable job at achieving that feeling. Even during work, when Winston saw the words “I love you” put down as something to erase, he was “too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole” (Orwell 108). Winston was swept away with love once again when he met his love, Julia, a rebellious young women who was as much into Big Brother’s downfall as he was. These shared feeling were dangerous to the Party, especially when it came to love making because then people “[use] up energy; and afterward you feel happy and [don’t care about anything]” (Orwell 133). In that society, “chastity and political orthodoxy had a

Because of the Party constantly monitoring people, Winston didn’t have any true friends, “You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades: but there was some comrades whose society was pleasanter than others” (Orwell 51) Winston also hated his wife Katherine for being susceptible to the Party’s ideas and he actually believed that, “ ...[Katherine] had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered.” (Orwell 69) While talking with Julia later on in the book he even mentions

After being imprisoned, Winston starts to have special sessions with O’Brien. During these, he uses a type of shock therapy on Winston to show him the truth of the Party and how to oppose it. Winston is stubborn and refuses to believe anything O’Brien is telling him (Graves). The Party has absolutely no want to help the citizens lives. The main purpose is to authorize the citizens thoughts so that they will never go against Big Brother. The government controls everyone through fear (Miniter). If Oceania is at war with one of the other countries. is has always been fighting with them. If a nation changes allies and starts a war, past newspapers change their articles to fit in the new world order. When citizens change those details in their head,

In 1984, Winston Smith is a rebellious character who is against the inner party and Big Brother. The party believes in complete loss of privacy, power of rewriting the past to agree with the present, the change in meaning of marriage, as well as diminishing any form of rebellious language. They control privacy with surveillance cameras, microphones, the telescreens that are never allowed to be turned off, monitoring every motion and word spoken. Furthermore, they say whatever they feel is necessary to remain in power over the people and if it doesn't agree in the future, they will change the past to agree with the present and destroy any evidence that they were ever wrong. Nevertheless, marriage is only kept in the eyes of the party as a duty to have children; any sex outside of the marriage is rebellious. Finally, they create new dictionaries of newspeak where words are removed in order to remove any form of communication that is considered personal to prevent rebellious thoughts and conspiracies.

As 1984 opens, Winston Smith is coming home from his job at the Ministry of Truth, providing the reader with a view of the world around him as he walks to his house. After his arrival, he reveals a diary he had brought from a small store and proceeds to write in it, though he knows that revealing his thoughts in such a manner was likely to get him killed. However, despite the heightened threat in his small betrayal, life proceeds as seems to be normal for Winston. He goes to his job, editing real history and replacing it with what the Party, the almighty power of this society, claims to be correct, and interacts with several of his coworkers, including a young woman with dark hair, Syme, Mr. Parsons, and O’Brien. Winston holds the vague idea that O’Brien may be a thought traitor like himself, but he is too afraid to admit anything. The workers gather to celebrate the Two Minute’s Hate, during which time they watch a video of a man called Emmanuel Goldstein, a traitor to the party, and shout hate at the screen. Winston also has a very inappropriate daydream about raping the dark-haired girl before Big Brother, their leader, comes on screen to calm them down. Life continues as normal...until the fateful day when everything changes—the day in which the dark-haired girl hands Winston a note that reads “I love you.”

Winston does not stop with what The Party terms “thoughtcrime” however, directly breaking the law in action as well as thought by repeatedly paying for sex, despite the fact that according to Party law “consorting with prostitutes [is] forbidden”.