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Symbolism In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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[We] reconstruct the unconscious process as though it had not experienced suppression and had continued its way into consciousness uninterruptedly . . . and we now learn with surprise that when suppression has occurred the emotion accompanying the normal process has been replaced by fear (Freud 341-42). In his timeless book, Mikhail Bakunin lays the basis for the 20th century anarchism where he emphasizes the natural tendency of human being to rebel. “our first ancestors . . . [were endowed] with two precious faculties – the power to think and the desire to rebel” (Bakunin 1). For so long, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been an icon for rebels for the projection it provides of our fears, anxieties, and our gaged rage. Big Brother is extensively depicted as a clear symbol of …show more content…

Winston’s diary is a symbol of his suppressed desire for rebellion, his entries as well only speak of his furry and his pain; emotions he is not allowed to express or act upon.
For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i do not care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with Big Brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with Big Brother — on freedom of thought and freedom of opinion (Orwell, 1984 21). Winston’s ideas are fragmented as he brings to his journal his stream of consciousness. The obvious neglect of punctuation and proper grammar reflects the fury that must have taken over him as he wrote these lines.
His eyes re-focused on the page. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action . . . His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals — DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG

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