1984 Totalitarian Government

In the novel 1984, the author George Orwell conveys a powerful message about a totalitarian government and that it would be a horrendous act upon the people. Since that government rules by focusing mainly on the justification of inciting fear through control. The split of three sections in the novel influences the intensity of the main character’s, Winston’s, drastic change and desire to be set free from the chains enforced by a totalitarian government, the Party. The gloomy setting helps invoke the bleary outcome of the fear a totalitarian government produces and how it affects what it means to be an individual. Orwell applies man versus society to portray how a totalitarian government desires power in order to control everything, Winston’s

The diary allows him to construct rebellious thoughts and this gives him the chance to fall in love with Julia and their love is the most powerful rebellion against the Party’s societal constructs. Winston begins writing in a diary, which is forbidden by the party, and this act of rebellion leads him down a path where his inevitable downfall will come to pass. It is described “By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went. He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen” (Orwell 6). Winston knows the corners he can hide in to avoid being completely monitored by the Party, allowing him to sneakily get away with bending their strict rules which in turn feeds his rebellious spirit. Since Winston is willing to go this far and sneak around behind the Party’s supervision, Orwell proves how when an individual questions the methods of a controlling government that they will find ways to get around that system. Winston’s sneak ability allows him to push the boundaries set

Later it becomes that “his first stream-of-consciousness diary entry depicts, amid images of genocide, the primordial relation to mother that exists at the center of all Winston's dreams” where the rebellious flame within begins to grow into an inferno (Carpentier). Winston sees having sex with Julia as the ultimate act of rebellion against the Party and has dreamt of doing the act for so long that this is his release from the imprisonment of the society in Oceania. Orwell describes “They were both breathing fast. But the smile had reappeared round the corners of her mouth. She stood looking at him for an instant, then felt at the zipper of her overalls. And, yes! It was almost as in his dream” (Orwell 124) which marks this as the ultimate act of rebellion, as seen from Winston’s perspective. His view of sexuality and of Julia prove his desire to fulfill his goal of openly rebelling against the Party without directly going against them. Winston’s seemingly harmful disobedience toward the Party from the beginning of the novel progressed into the ultimate act of defiance, something Winston now treasures and makes him feel invincible. With how “The love between Winston and Julia is, in the end, shattered; by an ultimate pitch of torture, they are reduced to betraying each other beyond any hope of retrieval” through their open rejection of one another in front of O’Brien