Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous dystopian novels written by George Orwell in 1949. This novel depicts a desperate society where the public is manipulated by the government coercion. Although this novel is fictional, but we have seen many scenes depicted in the novel come true in some countries around the world. Under government coercion, the protagonist Winston lives a miserable life with no freedom even in his own thoughts, because everyone is forced to believe what the government told them instead of developing their own thoughts. However, Winston is different from the crowd because he has a rebel heart. He holds his independent thinking, and refuse to accept the party’s brainwashing procedures. Winston knows the potential …show more content…
However, when he was arrested and tortured in Ministry of Love, the anticipation of being taken to room 101 rises with time. As the result, when he was taken to room 101, his last defense in his heart break apart, and the threat from deep inside in his heart force him to betray his revolution, his love Julia and confess himself to Big Brother. In this essay, I will carefully study the role of love in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Then, I will demonstrate how the anticipation of going to Room 101 builds up through Winston’s experience in the Ministry of Love, and it eventually kills his rebellious heart and make him betray his love Julia.
The freedom to love is essential to any democratic society. When an individual has freedom, he is free and has the right to love anyone. Although we might take it for granted that everyone has the freedom to love, slaves are not allowed to love in the old slavery society. The society depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four is
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From Winston’s response to O’Brien’s questions in the previous paragraph, it is demonstrated that he is determined in the revolution, and he is not afraid of anything but losing Julia. Winston is tortured in the Ministry of Love, but the torture only destroys his body, his mind is never destroyed. It is the same for all the prisoners in the Ministry of Love. However, when the prisoners are told that they will be taken to room 101, they all appear desperate and mentally destroyed. When the skull-faced man is told that he will be sent to room 101, he cried “Comrade! Officer! You don’t have to take me to that place! Haven’t I told you everything already? What else is it you want to know? There’s nothing I wouldn’t confess, nothing! Just tell me what it is and I’ll confess straight off. Write it down and I’ll sign it—anything! Not room 101!” (Orwell 298). The fact that he would do anything to prevent himself from going to room 101 illustrates the anticipation of going to room 101 destroys their mind. The man is starved for weeks, but he would rather be starved to death than taken to room 101 (Orwell 299). Winston witnesses the man’s desperation, and it builds up his fear of being sent to room 101. Therefore, Winston asks O’Brien “what is in Room 101?” in fear, and O’Brien’s answer adds up to his fear “You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is
After meeting Julia, he decides to openly become a rebel, and without hesitation he falls in love with Julia. This is an act of rebellion by Winston and Julia, because the government forbids love and sexual relations in any relationship. The two rebels have a relationship that they feel is secret, but in reality the government knows all. Julia and Winston would have never acted upon their actions if they were not influenced by writing ideas down, but the couple acted upon their thoughts which soon got them into deeper trouble than they could ever imagine. The torture and experiences that Winston and Julia went through after they were captured by the government shows just how powerful authority is. The end result of Winston betraying Julia is a product of how the government controlled and manipulated Winston’s mind to do unthinkable and hurtful actions. Conforming to a
Through his failure, Orwell portrays the dangers of a disunited society for the individual. Even though Winston willingly chose to oppose the Party and offered his life towards the eradication of his oppressors, his sacrifice proved futile without communal support to usurp the tyrannical regime. Despite the common suffering the people endured, their fear of the individual torment each would suffer motivated them to submit to the government. In Winston, Orwell highlights the frailty of an individual person in comparison to a mob. When imprisoned at the Ministry of Love, Winston’s will crumbled under torture and he even offered the life of the one individual he had earlier seemed hesitant to sacrifice, Julia. Hence, Orwell illustrates the need for a united social front for individuals to change the society in which they live in. Otherwise, self-preservation shall remain dominant within each individual, leaving them vulnerable to continuous manipulation through propaganda.
Later, Winston becomes broken and says that he knows that he was in the wrong, but preferred to be in the wrong. He showed that he still had motivation to fight for freedom. This is what causes him to go to Room 101, which is where he ends up betraying Julia because of the fear he has of rats. It seemed like everyone ends up betraying what/who they love most, since the purpose of the torture is to replace everything they know and love with Big Brother. Despite his failure, Winston still shows that he is a very heroic character based on his persistence to hate Big Brother and wanting to bring it down. The book “1984” shows that Winston is a hero because of his dedication to rebel as much as he could and his bravery to take action and to do what he believed was right. Winston was an phenomenal protagonist and was a hero defined through what he did, not by what happened to the him in the
The psychologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Because every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” He initially stated this when he was corresponding with Albert Einstein via letter. This quote is also a great explanation of the events that take place during war that people chose to not recognise. War is terrible, and no matter how hard we try, nothing will change that. Erich Maria Remarque shows us that soldiers have endured dreadfully throughout World War I in his book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The character in the book, Paul Baumer, endures through the tragedies of war with some of his old schoolmates as well as new comrades that he meets along the way. They survive through all of the tragedies together, but in the end, the war made them lose their friendships as well as their lives. The reality is that war comes with consequences while it destroys people, and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how war comes destroys people's lives with its consequences through three of its themes: the importance of comradery, the loss of innocence, and the horrors and brutality of war.
Winston walked down the sidewalk, a sense of apathy after his encounter with O’Brian in room 101 on several occasions, a sense of love; apathetic, emotionless love, for Big Brother. Winston did not remember what had happened in Room 101, nor how long he had been there for. Winston headed towards the park where he would meet the dark-haired girl he knew as Julia. Winston had an unexplainable emotion trapped inside his conscious, wanting to break free.
While interrogating Winston, O’Brien tells him, “[Julia] betrayed you Winston. You would hardly recognize her if you saw her. All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness – everything has been burned out of her” (272). Through systematic torture, Big Brother was able to change everything Julia believes in and who she is as a person. When placed in Room 101 and faced with his greatest fear, rats, Winston exclaims, “Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (289). Winston loved Julia, but has been tortured and broken to the point where he is willing to betray her to save himself. As Winston looks up at a picture of Big Brother on a telescreen, he feels happy and safe and acknowledges that “he loved Big Brother” (300). Winston once passionately loved Julia and hated Big Brother, but torture has changed him to accept and love everything the Party says and
The novel “1984” by George Orwell exemplifies the issues of a government with overwhelming control of the people. This government controls the reality of all of their citizens by rewriting the past, instilling fear, and through manipulation. This is an astounding story because of the realistic qualities that are present throughout the text about an extreme regulatory government and its effects. This society is overwhelming consumed with the constructed reality that was taught to them by Big Brother. George Orwell brings significant aspects to the novel like the complexity of relationships during a rebellion and The Party’s obsession with power. The main character Winston struggles throughout the story trying to stay human through literature, self-expression and his individuality. The party uses human’s tendencies, weaknesses, and strengths in order to dehumanize their citizens to gain control over them.
The death penalty is still in use in the united states. The state with the most executions is Texas with a total of 545 from 2017 to the year 1976 (Number of Executions, 2017). The death penalty is a very big debate. There are many reasons why and why people do and don’t like the death penalty.
In the novel 1984, George Orwell relates the tension between outward conformity and inward questioning by allowing the reader to see inside of the mind of Winston Smith. Orwell uses Winston’s rebellious thoughts to counteract his actions in order to show the reader how a dystopian society can control the citizens. Although Winston is in an obvious state of disbelief in the society, his actions still oppose his thoughts because of his fear of the government. Winston’s outward conformity and inward questioning relate to the meaning of the novel by showing Winston’s fight to truth being ended by the dystopian society’s government.
“1984” is an imaginary novel wrote by George Orwell in 1949. The novel takes place in a fictional country called Oceania. In 1984, the society is a mess in the control of the “big brother”, people are leveled by three three classes: the upper class party, the middle outer class party, and the lower class proles. But the lower class make up 85 per cent of the people in Oceania. Winston is a outer class party member working for the “big brother”. This novel uses Winston as an example to show how the “big brother” takes the control by mind, manipulation and technology.
<Interesting Intro> 1984 takes place in a society where the government controls everything and everyone, including ones thoughts. Some characters battle with the outward conformity, where they are supposed to act and think like a party member, and with the inward questioning that makes them rebel against the party. The author, George Orwell, witnessed totalitarian societies with his own eyes. Because of this, Orwell sends a message through the book by trying to show how totalitarian societies are bad. Orwell uses Winston as a symbol that shows how totalitarian societies are not beneficial to the people and can make them live double lives.
Who control the present controls the past.” (Orwell 2016, Ch. 3 pg. 34) The motif, is a reminder of the Party’s technique of falsify history to brainwash and cause the psychological break down of its people. Orwell constantly foreshadows the outcome in the Ministry of Love, by Winston’s immense fear of rats, this fear first presented itself in the secret room that Winston and Julia frequently occupied, “’Rats!’ murmured Winston. ‘In this room!’…’Of all horrors in the world – a rat!’” (Orwell 2016, Ch. 4 pg. 137) This foundation fear, that the Party soon discovered, would become the very thing that would unravel Winston. As foreshadowed, when Winston is tortured in Room 101 in the ironically named Ministry of Love, it was done with rats. Winston’s fear of rats terrified him enough to betray Julia. Orwell used foreshadowing, propaganda writing styles and personification in the novels to depict how the dictators have power through actions and how the actions of their subjects have
In the present case study, the principal and the assistant principal has the lack of knowledge for understanding the services rendered under the IDEIA. According to Gartin & Murdock (2005), the services rendered under the IDEIA are the special education services and all related services (p.333). Consequently, if a student has an assessment or referral for other therapies, the educational system is required to render such services based on peer reviewed research, to enhance the advancement of annual goals, to participant with peers with and without disabilities an in a general classroom, and to have the opportunity to establish advancement in general curriculum, non-curricular activities, and extra-curricular activities (Gartin & Murdock, 2005,
The main character in George Orwell’s 1948 novel, 1984, Winston Smith can be seen as many things. To some, he may be a hero, but to others he is a coward and a fool. Throughout the novel, Winston’s characteristics are explored, and readers are shown the reasoning behind Winston’s twisted mind. It is evident that although Winston thinks he had control over his own mind and body, this is an imagined factor. The world of 1984 is one of a totalitarian society, where no one can be trusted, and no one is safe, Winston being the primary example of one who trusted thoughtlessly.
In 1984, the last and largest work of Orwell’s life, the oppression becomes even more sinister. Winston, a member of the “party,” decides to break away from the melancholy lifestyle in which “freedom is slavery” and rebel against the government that restrains him. The party even erases all of history and claims that reality is within the mind; “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” He becomes conscious of all the trickery and lies of the party and joins a secret organization to fight for freedom. The organization, however, is a lie and Winston is tortured until he learns to truly love Big Brother. 1984 makes prominent stabs at the