Dystopia In George Orwell's 1984

In Orwell’s 1984 the dystopia described in the novel shockingly brings readers a sense of familiarity to the present day. The people of Oceania all suddenly live in a world of infinite war, in which terror and animosity are imposed on foreigners and where Big Brother is always watching you. A world where Big Brother asserts that existence is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” (Orwell 163), but it is, “whatever the Party holds to be the truth is truth” (Orwell 163). Orwell created a corrupted vision in which there lies Oceania where the government is persistent on creating a reality where propaganda infiltrates the lives of people who are oblivious by tabloids and where all literature is rewritten by the Ministry

This is seen throughout the rebellion of Julia and Winston. Winston rebels against the party with a purpose. He hopes for a future just like the past that he remembers which is very significant to him. One of his first instances that his hatred for Big brother is seen when the narrator begins to exclaim, “He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had…been writing…by automatic action…His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals—DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER…over and over again, filling half a page” (Orwell 11). Everything we know about Winston is that his hate for the party is based upon more broadly principled reasons. He dreads the dishonesty of the party and despises the control they have around him. Winston retaliates on belief against the Party’s suppression of thought which can be seen through this quote. He triumphs over is fear because he knows that expressing such thoughts that he has unleashed has it own thought crimes. This is where the peak of his rebellion starts. On the other hand, Julia deals with rebellion through more pragmatic ways rather than theoretical ways like Winston. For her, she only despises the Party when they impede on her way of life. This is noted by Winston for example when he says, “she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life” (Orwell 99). The contrast drawn between

In part two of the novel, Julia raises some crucial points regarding the party which shocks Winston because they represent a total opposite way of thinking. She first draws some points about the war with Oceania and Eurasia in which she does not believe that the war is even going on. Julia begins to say “The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself” (Orwell 99). Based on Julia’s opinion, she feels that the Party did this to keep people in a state of fear so they are easier to control and manipulate. Julia also comments on the forgeries which are carried out at Winston’s workplace, the Ministry of Truth. She is very carefree about “the old newspapers” and personally thinks that they have no direct impact on her life. To Winston however, such forgeries signify the manipulation and composition of the information, which he is very passionate about and bevies that it epitomizes the party’s evil nature. Julia’s political beliefs show how she is more insightful whereas Winston is more philosophically reflective on the politics of the Party. Both their political ideals differ in their thought process but in the end they believe the same thing which is their hatred for the Party. Once again, one can see how Julia’s beliefs on the politics of the Party contradict Winston’s. The contradictory thoughts imposed on