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Historical information about the Setting: Orwell’s novel takes place in London (but the province itself had been renamed “Airstrip One”) in a land called Oceania in the year 1984. Oceania is in the state of seemingly endless war; the country is in constant peril. There are terrible living conditions. For example, everything is rundown and food rations are pathetically divided. The government sees and controls everything. When the novel was written in 1949, 1984 was the near-future. “1984” was Orwell’s haunting visualization of a “negative utopia”. This vision was influenced by his visits to many countries where totalitarian regimes reigned over citizens. Plot summary: Winston Smith is a minor member of the Party, which is the ruling totalitarian regime. Telescreens allow the Party to spy on people. The mascot/ruler of the Party, Big …show more content…

His job is to rewrite history. He notices a dark-haired female coworker watching him, which causes him to think that she will turn him in for thoughtcrime. Winston is uneasy about the falsified history. There is almost no spying in the proles (the poorest areas), so Winston takes walks there at …show more content…

O’Brien spends months torturing and brainwashing the struggling Winston. Finally, O’Brien sends him to Room 101, the room that holds a person’s worst fear. Throughout the story, Winston has had nightmares about rats, proving them as his worst fear. O’Brien straps a cage of rats onto Winston’s head and is about to let the rats eat his face. Winston begs O’Brien to do it to Julia instead of him. This betrayal was what O’ Brien wanted all along. Winston is released. He talks with Julia, and they acknowledge that they betrayed each other. They drift apart, since they no longer love each other. Winston now loves Big Brother and is a dedicated member of the

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O’Brien tells Winston that he is an operative of the Ministry of Love. In chapter two, Winston’s crime was the refusal of letting the Party have control of his memory and past. O’Brien tortures him until, he agrees to accept that O’Brien is holding up five fingers, even though its four.

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While discussing what would happen if they were to be caught by the Thought Police, Winston tells of vivid acts that they would do to get a confession out of the both of them. Winston tell Julia that “[he] confesses, they’ll shoot [her], and if [he] refuse[s] to confess they’ll shoot [her] just the same” (Orwell 166). Winston then goes on in grave detail about what he thinks goes on in the Ministry of Love, he guesses that they is “torture, drugs, [and] delicate instruments that registered [one’s] nervous reaction” so that the truth “could not be kept hidden” from them (Orwell 167). This powerful use of imagery creates a very ominous outlook of Winston’s and Julia’s future to come.

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Winston has a vision that an important member of the Party, O’Brien, is secretly against the government. He had a dream that O’Brien spoke to him saying they will meet in “the place where there is no darkness”. Also, when their eyes meet during the Two Minutes Hate, Winston sees hatred in O’Brien’s eyes. Throughout the novel, Winston wonders if O’Brien is a friend or enemy. There is a dark haired girl that Winston always sees staring at him, and he hates her.

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Winston fails to stay true to his belief of staying loyal to Julia going against how a hero is someone who is idealized for being moral. As part of the Party’s plan to reintegrate those who have rebelled against them, the final step is going to room 101 that holds “the worst thing in the world” (283). Winston and Julia have fail to betray each other throughout their obscure time in the Ministry of Love until one of Winston’s greatest fears, rats are literally brought to the table. Winston fears rats more than anything and he did not want to interact with them in any negative way causing him to yell out “'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!

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Since O’Brien’s tenacity and stern drive to get Winston to give up is so strong, he will soon have no other choice but to love Big Brother. Furthermore, Winston is finally months into his reintegration and O’Brien is performing a check up on him: “Tell me Winston--and remember, no lies; you know that I am always able to detect a lie---tell me, what are your true feelings toward Big Brother?” “I hate him.” (232) O’Brien found out about Winston’s true feelings of Big Brother then sent him back into Room 1011 for more brainwashing. Being adamant about this mission, O’Brien will not stop at any cost to get Winston back into the Party’s standards.

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Winston continues to disappoint further as because of the lack of his usual paranoia and good instinct in identification of character, he is defeated by Mr. Charrington’s avuncular mask, trusting him even with the notion that the Thought Police and telescreen surveillance is everywhere in the Party’s jurisdiction. His fatalism proves fatal in this scene as he falls with little resistance, allowing Julia to be violently captured in the process, conflicting with what a lover and a hero would normally do. Although unrealistic, it is to my belief that a heroic character would not betray their loved ones as well as themselves, which Winston eventually did as he developed love for Big Brother, detaching the connection he shared with Julia in the final scenes of the

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One of his co-workers, a dark haired girl, he fears is who might turn him in. However, he later receives a note from her reading “I love you” and they develop a relationship and love for each other, secretly meeting each other, and eventually renting a place together. She reveals her name to him, Julia. During this time, it is revealed that Winston murdered his former wife, Katharine. Later, O’Brien

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The novel 1984, by George Orwell, presented an eerily realistic society brainwashed and controlled by their government. The main character, Winston Smith, was not easily manipulated, and documented his rebellious thoughts in a journal. He also rebelled physically, and was eventually caught. He was taken to the Ministry of Love to be tortured, and submitted to the control of the government. Throughout the novel, Orwell accurately depicted many aspects of Nazi Germany in the fictional nation of Oceania.

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Orwell first mentions the rats as foreshadowing for Winston's ultimate fate in an earlier chapter. A small remark said during an intimate moment between Winston and Julia: “I don’t like rats, that’s all” (Orwell 144). For the reader, this was confirmation that the party had always been listening, and that even those small moments together were not private. For Winston, this final use of psychological torture would be the end of any rebellion in him. By the end of the book, Winston had betrayed everyone including himself, but there was one person he refused to betray: Julia.

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In Part III of the novel, when faced with his biggest fear, Winston betrays Julia, ratting her out so she is faced with torture instead of him, ultimately collapsing the strong loyalty bond between them. Winston was about to be faced with something he could have never imagined. Wisnton asked O’Brien what was in Room 101 and O’Brein responded that the thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world, and it varies from person to person. “In your case,' said O'Brien, 'the worst thing in the world happens to be rats…A sort of premonitory tremor, a fear of he was not certain what had passed through Winston as soon as he caught his first glimpse of the cage.” (283)

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Winston knew something was not right he felt almost spooked. No one was on the street, no mouth was speaking, no bodies were moving, the street was deserted. Suddenly he remembered O’brien telling him, “In the end we shall shoot you” Winston had perhaps seconds. All of a sudden his mind was spinning, his brain began to throb, his heart began beating seemingly out of his chest. The hairs on is back were pressing against his overalls, goosebumps erupted across his neck and arms.

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Nineteen Eighty- Four or 1984 is a science fiction novel, written by George Orwell, about a dystopian world where it divided into three nations known as: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, who constantly at war with each other. The government known as The Party used propaganda, secret police, brainwashing, and other device to oppress their population. Citizens are controlled by fear and brainwashing, and allowing little to no privacy. The novel illustrated the dangers of totalitarian governments. The story revolves around a relatively average member go by the name Winston Smith who, throughout the course of the novel, begins to secretly rebel against the government.

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This is a literary analysis on the novel 1984 by George Orwell. 1984 is a more recent classic dystopian novel. Written in 1949, it's based in the future year of what is presumed to be 1984. It focuses on the life of Winston Smith, a member of the newly established Party that rules over a territory called Oceania and that is led by a man called Big Brother. This novel provides a rather frightening insight into a dystopian socialist environment.

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Orwell feared that the world was moving toward totalitarianism and people might lose freedom and rights. The novel was published in 1949. Back then there were no technologies as in Nineteen Eighty Four, the screens and missiles were still thoughts. Orwell clearly pictures the danger of totalitarianism to the world and created a remarkable dystopian ahead of his time.

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After being released from Room 101, he learns that Big Brother can conquer love and anything else in the world. Winston then admits to loving Big Brother, meaning loving everything he stood for

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