Hannah Gates Mrs. Carlson Pre AP English II 3 August 2015 Assignment 1 1984 Book One, Chapter One: Down With Big Brother Summary: We are introduced to the world in which Winston Smith lives, Winston shows his discontent towards Big Brother through his illegal diary, and he realizes he might not be alone in his rebellion towards Big Brother. 1984 Book One, Chapter Two: Thoughtcrime IS Death Summary: Winston helps his neighbor, Parsons, whose children "accuse" him of being a thoughtcriminal and reflects on how children are raised to be loyal to the Party, so much so that they would sell their own parents out, before writing in his diary more and surmising that he is already dead. 1984 Book One, Chapter Three: Memories and Dreams …show more content…
1984 Book One, Chapter Six: Katherine Summary: We get a glimpse of Winston 's past, learning that he had a wife named Katherine, who is brought into memory by him writing about an experience with prostitution in his diary. 1984 Book One, Chapter Seven: Hope in the Proles Summary: Winston comes to the conclusion that if there is any chance of the destruction of the Party it lies in the hands of the proles because everyone ignores them so they could revolt easier and he remembers about one time when he came into contact with solid evidence that the Party rewrites news to fit with what Big Brother says. 1984 Book One, Chapter Eight: Searching for Information Summary: Winston speaks with an old man at a pub about the past before he goes to the shop in which he bought his illegal diary, where he also buys a piece of coral inside an semi-circle of glass and learns an old rhyme then discovers a private room that later comes in handy. 1984 Book Two, Chapter One: Love Note Summary: One day at work, when walking to the bathrooms, Winston runs into the dark-haired girl, who secretly gives him a note proclaiming her love before he plans a meeting with the mysterious girl whom he used to hate. 1984
He discovers Julia, whom he falls in love with, and she has the same beliefs as him. Together they find O'Brien-a member of the inner-party, whom-Winston believes-could overthrow "The Party" (the Government), and Big Brother: the supreme governmental leader that may be fictional or may be real, we never know. They become inner-party members but then are betrayed by O'Brien, separated from each other (that's the last we hear of Julia), and Winston is tortured, until he believes the way of the party. He finally is put through enough torture in the Ministry of Love that he gives in, and believes everything the party believes-the past is alterable, the present can change, and that 2+2=5 if they say it is so.
He remembered being hungry when he was little and he begged for food. One day he had stolen a piece of chocolate from his little weak sister. He ran outside and ate it and didn’t come home for a few hours. And that was the last time he saw his mother and his little sister. That memory of his mom holding his little sister reminds him if the proles and reminds him that they are still human even though the type of life it is. Winston and Julia discuss their relationship and how they would feel or what they would do when they get caught. Julia thinks that the party won’t make them believe their confessions, and Winston agrees. Winston and Julia both goes to O’Brien house, and tell him that they are both enemies of the party. O’Brien tells them about the secrete brotherhood and how it’s a group that’s formed to eliminate the party and offers them to join it. O’Brien mad an arrangement for Winston to get a copy of “the book”. Winston asked O’Brien to sing the last part to Mr. Charringtons nursery rhyme and he did, it took Winston by
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.
Winston thinks of rebelling against The Party. Destroying the dishonest scriptures, the fake news reports, the lying, the abusing, the government.
Tired of feeling the way he is, with the monotonous struggle of everyday life Winston decides to oppose the party in more real ways; and begins to deviate from certain set behaviors to free himself from this bondage of the party. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone”(25-26). He has realized what the government does to people; how everyone is made to be the same, where no one is allowed to think on their own. The party is omnipotent in all affairs and he will not go along with it anymore. Winston has made up his mind; he is going to do everything he can to bring down the party. He and Julia go to O’Brien’s apartment one afternoon, and Winston’s true hatred is revealed. “We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party,
Winston Smith is a thirdy-nine-year-old intellectual, fatalistic, frail and a thin man which is the minor member of the ruling Party in near-future London. We experience the nightmarish world that the writer envisions through his eyes. Winston is extremely pensive, curious and desperate to understand how and why the Party exercises has such absolute power in Oceania. He passionately hates the totalitarian control of his government and the Party. He has his own revolutionary dreams.He wants to test the limits of its power and he commits crimes, have an illegal love affair with Julia to get himself secretly into the anti-Party Brotherhood.
In 1984, by George Orwell violence contributed to the plot by having three stages of reintegration. The stages are learning, understand, and to accept, Winston was forced to learn that 2+2=5 under torture, understanding that the party is good, and seeks power for its own. Winston accepts and understands the Party as he wishes the burden of torture on someone else who he loves, this allowed Winston to accept that the Party’s leader Big Brother is eternal and that 2+2=5, he comes committed and loyal to the Party and its purpose, he then awaits his execution to prove his devotion to the party.
Winston’s ability to think freely poses a threat to the Party’s pursuit for an eradication of resistance. In the hidden room of Mr. Charrington’s shop, Winston and Julia wake up after and begin to prepare themselves for work. Clothing himself, Winston hears a prole woman singing outside their window, and begins to admire her voice. He thinks to himself, “As he fastened the belt of his overalls he strolled across to the window. The sun must have gone down behind the houses; it was not shining into the yard any longer.
Winston Smith, a worker for the Outer Party is dissatisfied with how his life is going. He decides to take up measures to rebel against the government by writing in a diary and even committing the sin of “thoughtcrime”. During the novel, he encounters Julia, another woman who wants to help stop The Party. Together they fall into love, or at least what they perceived as love, and met in secret contemplating the fact that they could be taken prisoner any day. They do get taken prisoner and are betrayed by Winston’s friends. Afterward the outcome of their efforts had been in vain. He is manipulated and eventually changes his outlook on Big Brother. Orwell relays that one must be wary of change; change should be looked upon as bad if it is thought
Once they both became accustomed to each other, Winston rented an upstairs room in a junk shop owned by an old man named Charrington. Winston never knew the old man that well but told Charrington that his purpose of renting the room was for a hideout for ,... “a love-affair.” The old man did not judge Winston but said that privacy, “was a very valuable thing.” With that said, Winston did not even suspect the old man as a threat to his and Julia’s relationship.
Winston 's current situation working there is the major factor which lets him realize how Big brothers hold back the peoples opportunity to freedom. However, Winston keeps his thoughts and hate about Big Brother and the party for his own secret in his diary because the party will not allow anyone keeping a rebellious idea. After a while Big Brother realizes Winston’s suspicious behavior and has an individual named O’Brien sent to watch over Winston. O’Brien is a very smart man from the Ministry of truth, who is a member of the 'inner party '(the higher class). Winston comes to trust him and shares his inner secrets and ideas about the rebellion against Big Brother. O 'Brien tells Winston about a man named Emmanuel Goldstein whom claims to know the leader of the rebels against Big Brother. This also promises Winston to get a copy of the book he Longley desires. Suddenly O’Brien goes against Winston as Big Brother had already planned. Showing major secretive external conflict.
In the novel there are many instances where it is evident that Winston shows he does not believe in Big Brother and the party. One instance is when Winston explains he works in the Ministry of Truth, and says how he changes the history to agree with Big Brother. This shows how he knows the government is manipulating the other citizens minds because he is the one changing the history. Another instance is when Winston is writing down with big brother into his journal. During this time, Winston is starting to feel a rebellious
Winston Smith lives in a country under complete totalitarian control. He is part of a poor city with little food and huge pyramids. These pyramids are home to a party called Big Brother which uses surveillance cameras to constantly watch its people and exercise its power. Winston’s main attributes are his fatalism and rebelliousness. Winston hates the Party passionately and starts to test the limits of its power. He has a love affair with Julia one of his fellow workers and writes about his hate for Big Brother in his diary and eventually joins the anti-party brotherhood. The odd shape of Winston’s room allowed him to sit slightly out of the telescreens range so he could start writing his diary.
book, living in a one-bedroom apartment. Smith is miserable and keeps an incriminating journal of all negative thoughts of the Party, if caught Smith will be vaporized, he will become an unperson. One day in the office he noticed a dark haired woman staring at him, she is “Julia”. Smith hates her, he desires to rape her and murder her. Winston feels she’s a member of the Thought Police and that she is spying on him ready to denounce him. Her youth and decorative Anti-Sex League (Party League that degrades on the pleasures derived from sexual intercourse) sash disgusts him. Months later Winston bumps into Julia and she slips a note into his hand; the note says “I love you”. They make arrangements to meet and
Additionally, the portrayal of this dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian government might have been understood well by contemporary audiences, mirroring the rules of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy- the citizens have no influence on the government and have no freedom of choosing the rules that govern and control every part of their lives. Therefore, Winston blames the misery in his life totally and completely on the government and on Big Brother. In Winston’s case, we can see that the propaganda, deprivation, and strict rules fail to make him concur with the party and accept Big Brother- in this situation, the party has to use extreme force and torture to make Winston love the party as well as Big Brother, in order for the party to maintain complete power.