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Analysis Of 1984 By George Orwell

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Throughout the past, people have been persecuted for their differences in ideology and culture in their respective societies. In George Orwell’s 1984, the dystopic world of Oceania maintains its order by eliminating the notion of personal belief among its people. The destruction of all artistic material which provokes thought and reflection is carried out. This ensures that the known as the Outer Party, are kept from the knowledge required for revolution against the Inner Party. Their capability and will for deliberation is limited, creating a bleak world composed of people indistinguishable from one another. Winston Smith expresses his individual desires in this uniform society, by seeking the practices and freedoms of the past. He liberates his consciousness from the …show more content…

To begin, Winston writes in the diary, conveying his rebellious intentions against the authoritarian state. Winston voices his hatred of the Party’s control over his actions, demanding for their demise. This is shown when he rewrites: “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (Orwell 20) multiple times, due to his reduced inhibitions from having drunk a cup of gin. Despite his initial panic of acting against the Party, Winston eventually criticizes: “theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck...with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck...” (Orwell 21). He soon realizes that he’ll be vaporized for committing thoughtcrime nonetheless. He decides to continue expressing his thoughts in his diary and risks his life for the sake of self-expression. He admits “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” (Orwell 30), showing

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A crime which Winston is fully aware of committing, he wrote, "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER." (1:1:36) Winston, knowing the consequences, he continued on, "It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage." (1:2:37) He then wrote to an audience hoping his thoughts would be passed on someday, “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free…from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink-greetings!”

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In 1984 by George Orwell a story about a man who is living in a strict totalitarian dictating government, Winston Smith objects them in almost every way conceivable since he loathes the way the Party is set up. On the one hand, Winston proves how he is a hero through his rebellious acts, double life, and bravery. On the other hand, Winston expresses his anti-heroic side when he becomes selfish and fails to stay true to his beliefs throughout the whole story. One of a hero’s main and highly respected qualities is bravery, and Winston proves how he is willing to be brave and risk being caught committing “thoughtcrime”.

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The premise that Winston harbored hate for Big Brother was evident from the beginning. Albeit this circumstance, the party macerated any semblance of Winston’s concepts as he loves Big Brother in the end. An example of his change is admitted as follows, “forty years it had taken him to learn what smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache”. Surprising as it is, the raw strength of the dystopian party bis noted to afflict everyone, in the end, everyone is “vaporized”.

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Winston finds an alcove in his apartment, the perfect place wherein he cannot be seen by the telescreen (Orwell, 8), and begins to fill the diary’s pages with slurs, thoughts and statements against Big Brother and The Party. Unconsciously, uncontrollably, relentlessly and drunkenly smearing the phrase “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (Orwell, 20) throughout the diary, Winston does

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Even though Winston Smith’s life is filled with misery and pain in his totalitarian society, Orwell allows him brief of happiness and love. During this time, there is hope for Winston and hope for the future of this society. In the beginning of the book, we learn that Winston works for the government in the records department in the ministry of truth. While trying to escape Big Brother, he starts writing a diary which is a thought-out crime.

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Members of the inner party seemed to have the most control over their thoughts and impulses, or at least were the best at not acting on those thoughts and impulses. This allowed most of the inner party members to live in the same sort of reality where the government and Big Brother meant everything to them. Outer party members, such as Winston, still were able to control their thoughts and impulses, but they had a much harder time doing so. Winston didn’t like the government, wanted to rebel, and had a loose grip on his thoughts and impulses. By writing “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (Orwell 18) Winston had allowed his thoughts and impulses to start controlling him, which altered the reality he lived in and how hard he had to try in order to not get caught by the government and thought

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In a trip into his mind: “The house of sin was dark and mean,/With dying flowers round the doors” (Orwell 13-14) The narrator's passion for an agonizing life is like a religion to him, even calling his mind a “house of sin” compared to the opposite “house of god”. His orthodox beliefs trap him within his rotting, decaying mind. However, he suddenly changes: “I turned into the house of God” (Orwell 32) When the narrator finally breaks free, the tone of the poem changes, along with himself; the narrator sees a light and without his orthodoxy to pain, he is conscious. This poem provides a solution to the main issue of 1984, how to become conscious without being caught rebelling, one must realize one's suffering.

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In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten" (Orwell, 60). As words slowly become annihilated, citizens are unable to express themselves, limiting their

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