1984 Setting

O’Brien has truly grasped Winston’s attention now and seems to truly be apart of the “Brotherhood”. Winston, with ecstatic behavior, begins to ask if it is real and not just an invention created by the Thought Police. O’Brien explains to him that it’s real and asks a series of questions seeing if Winston and Julia are willing to devote their lives to the Brotherhood. However, this quote reveals the duplicity behind O’Brien and how truly evil and corrupt the Party has become.

The girl in fact does not truly love Winston, she is playing him for some reason.

Winston is then taken to a place known as the “Ministry of Love” where he discovers O’Brien is an inside member of the Party who gained Winston’s trust by posing as a firm hater of the Party. Winston then spends months being tortured and brainwashed as O’Brien attempts to reform the nonconformist that Winston has

1984 was wrote by George Orwell, in the story he created a hypothetical world 40 years from then. In this alternate future three authoritarian states have taken over the entirety of the world. These governments erase history that does not agree with their policies. Ingsoc, the government of oceania that country where the story takes place, used advance survival as all public and private areas had TVs which contained cameras; microphones were also used to keep tab on the citizens. George Orwell used the story to warn about the potential dangers of a large centralized governments, in this instance to warn about the dangers of communism. Because of the satirical purpose which Orwell had in writing 1984, the characters in the book tend favor a shadowy or two-dimensional

to becoming involved with the Brotherhood. Unfortunately for Winston, this desire for freedom will also be the cause for his eventual downfall. The main antagonist is O’Brien, an influential member of the Inner Party who deceives Winston into assuming that he is part of the revolutionary party - the Brotherhood. He symbolizes the state and functions largely to reveal the inner mechanisms of the Party. The character of O'Brien is a reflection of contemporary leaders during the twentieth century such as Hitler and Stalin.

He breaks free from the chains of the government. Winston gradually started to rebel, beginning with the fact that he purchased a journal to write down his thoughts. He was even surprised at himself because while writing, he discovered his true feelings about the government and he unconsciously committed a crime. Also, writing in a journal can give the Thought Police reason to arrest or kill you. His disagreement with the Party continues and on top of that he starts developing feelings for a woman in his work. Winston actually loathed Julia at first because he couldn’t have her. She is described as a minimalistic seductress because of her natural beauty. He called her “girl with dark hair” (39). The woman, Julia, initiated the illegal act, but Winston allowed it to progress. He even elevated it by renting a room with her. In this room, they often committed crimes to the Party, such as being together and writing in his journal. They knew that they couldn’t get away with it for long and like many of the modern heroes, he did it anyway. To their surprise they received a summons from O’Brien, a member of the inner party, asking them to meet. Winston agrees because O’Brien has more authority than him. As a reader, you would think that Winston would be afraid of him because of his connections to the inner party, but actually Winston was intrigued about his intelligence. At their meeting, Winston and Julia thought they had discovered an ally because O’Brien claimed he was

Initially, Winston believes she is deeply connected to the party, but once she approaches him, they begin a love affair. Their actions and feelings of hope and love are a symbol of the Party’s weakness. Their love affair is a direct rebellion to what the Party allows. It was not just the simple act of being together, but everything that it involved. Winston had to rent a secret room from the shop owner, Charrington.

At this point, O’Brien seems to be trustworthy, he appears to be Winston’s only other friend than Julia who shares his opinions of The Party. O’Brien may be Winston’s only hope of overthrowing the party, but this expectation is eventually redirected when Winston is captured and sees O’Brien in the Ministry of Love, “’They got you too!’ he cried. ‘They got me a long time ago,’” (Orwell 238).

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, is about the external and internal conflicts that take place between the two main characters, Winston and Big Brother and how the two government ideas of Democracy and totalitarianism take place within the novel. Orwell wrote the novel around the idea of communism/totalitarianism and how society would be like if it were to take place. In Orwell’s mind democracy and communism created two main characters, Winston and Big Brother. Big Brother represents the idea of the totalitarian party. In comparison to Big Brother, Winston gives and represents the main thought of freedom, in the novel Winston has to worry about the control of the thought police because he knows that the government with kill anyone who

In his book 1984, George Orwell creates a fictional world with a strict and secretive form of government which seeks to control its citizens. Some of the situations he includes in his book are reminiscent of things learned in a high school history classroom. Other characteristics of his secret government include purely wicked and new ideas. Orwell explores various kinds of betrayal, including self-betrayal to heighten the mood of loneliness and alienation in 1984. Through his writing, he supplies readers with an imaginative world that some may fear could become a reality someday.

Winston is always fearful while Julia is more pragmatic and optimistic. They meet O Brien and believe he’s a member of the Brotherhood. O Brien confirms to Winston that he hates the Party. and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book. But in fact, O Brien is a spy from the

I am going to start by examining the genre of the novel. 1984 is one of the most popular novels of George Orwell’s work. When defining the genre, we can state that it is a dystopian, or negative utopian novel, since the writer aims to portray the worst human society imaginable to persuade readers to avoid any path that may lead towards it, while a novel of utopia does the exact opposite.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, a 39 year old frail man named Winston Smith lives in London, which is now known as Oceania. The ruler of Oceania has been Big Brother ever since the first World War ended, and anybody who would defy him would be “erased” from all records. People who are “erased” cease to exist and only lies in memories. Winston is a very integral part of this process since he works at the Ministry of Truth, which deals more with making up lies so that everything is in accordance to Big Brother. During one particular work day, a tradition called the Hate Week lead by Emmanuel Goldstein which encourages others to sabotage Big Brother is particularly eye-catching to Winston.

One day, Winston attends a mandatory meeting. While there he sees a man he thinks is a friend. His name is O’Brien. He also sees a dark-haired girl from the fiction department whose name is Julia. Winston believes Julia is against him until a few days later when she hands him a note that says “I love you”. Winston and Julia take a trip to the countryside to plot against Big Brother and the Party. They confess their plans to O’Brien who they believe

His frustration results with him buying a diary in which he can write about all of his plans to overthrow the party in heavy detail. Eventually, Winston sees a man named O’Brien, a fellow party member. Winston originally considers O’Brien as an ally and believes he’s a member of the Brotherhood, a classified group that works to overthrow the power abusive party. He also sees a girl at his workplace named Julia, who passes him a note