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Examples Of Defiance In 1984

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Hope and defiance are played within 1984 by the Party and Orwell. Orwell instills fear, hate, obedience, and respect in his characters to follow the Party, but he tampers with the concept of hope, but only in small amounts. Orwell puts little emphasis into hope and defiance compared to the emotions stated before. Hope is expressed little by little as the story continues, having the main two who prove to have hope or defiance towards the Party is Winston and Julia. The first instance in Winston is expressed while he is writing about the Proles. He suggests, “If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population Oceania could the force to destroy the Party …show more content…

He has hope in them, but in the end this hope is never proven, nor any other way the Party was defeated. Julia is the character who exhibits the most defiance against the Party. She goes against the Party by breaking the rule about sex outside of marriage, even just the act on it’s own. Winston ponders on the idea, going on in his thoughts on the idea, “He wondered vaguely how many others like her might be in the younger generation--not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog” (131). This act of rebellion is subtle and proves that there are those who will go against the Party, perhaps not outright fighting, but in silence. The last time hope is played with is during the last few chapters of the book during Winston’s time with O’Brien. Winston goes on about how the Party will be defeated and declares an important aspect of his mind, “Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?’ ‘I don’t know. The Spirit of Man.’ ‘And do you consider yourself a man?’’ ‘Yes.’ “(270). Winston declares himself to have the spirit of man. This is the last shard of hope in him until he finally breaks after sending his punishment to

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It is always difficult walking into school on your first day not knowing anyone that will be in your classroom. Then, you see that one friend, and everything you were worried about turned into no big deal. In 1984, Winston meets a woman with dark hair and wonders if he should approach her. As he does so and sits next to the woman, he realizes that all his worries were for no reason. This woman's name was Julia and Winston knew they had to be together.

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In this time of torture and interrogation, he was given a chance to show his great heroic strength. He could have continued to rebel by keeping quiet and taking his unfair punishment, but instead, he was weak and gave in to Big Brother. By giving up Julia, Winston gives Big Brother the message that he loved them more than any other person, which is exactly what they want. Winston is not a hero because the government was able to take his free will and make him their pawn, just like so many other

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In the novel 1984, outward conformity is crucial to the survival of the citizens of Oceania. One character in particular who practices this extremely well is the main character, Winston Smith. He not only conforms outwardly, but also questions his society inwardly, due to the overhanging fear that Miniluv will find and torture him. Winston constantly questions Big Brother and all of the laws that the citizens of Oceania are required to obey while also inwardly questioning his forbidden romance with Julia. Without this rising tension throughout the novel, 1984 would lose its suspenseful tone and would easily lose the focus of readers.

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In the book 1984, by George Orwell, there’s some psychology that we’ve seen so far. A group of people participate in something called The Two Minutes Hate, during this the people’s behavior exemplify groupthink, which states in the text, “Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.” This tells us that the people are frustrated so they shout altogether, and this shows us groupthink since one person shouted, then everyone else joined in. Winston’s response is conformity by the text that states, “It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer. At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow rhythmical chant of ‘B-B! …

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The people of Oceania blame their enemies for their problems. Whenever there is a problem like low resources the people, also known as the proles, start blaming others over their own government. For example during hate week a orator was giving a speech and had to change who Oceania was at war with in the middle of the speech. The proles then started tearing down all the anti- Eurasia signs saying that it was sabotage by Emmanuel Goldstein’s agents or spies from Eastasia. “The next moment there was a tremendous commotion.

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He goes along with the crowd who has been brainwashed to do what are told to do and not to think for themselves. Winston is not too far gone into the group, even though he thinks it is wrong, he still has to follow orders or else he will be tortured. Winston does not stand directly in front

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Winston has an imaginative mind and later in the book he claims that the “power that would one day overturn the world” lies “in the proles”. He feels that the fate of the Party would lie in their hands and “when their time came, the world they constructed would not be just as alien to him” since “at the least it would be a world of sanity” (220). Winston expresses one of his heroic qualities through displaying his vision for the good of

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Both Winston and Julia have a lot of personality that goes against the Party and Big Brother, so when their true character comes out they end up getting into trouble. Through the “characters’ actions”, in 1984, Orwell suggests individuality leads to rebellion. Winston and Julia’s actions show that their own individuality leads to rebellion. Winston and Julia’s uniqueness leads them to rebellion in George Orwell’s, 1984. The Party doesn’t allow the citizens of Oceania to think their own thoughts in fear of a rebellion against the government.

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The aforementioned quotes illustrate the extent of Winston’s desire for change and revolution, which can be inferred by the structure, language, and context present in the quotes. For example, the leading quote displays Winston’s desperation for change, as seen by the use of “hope” and the simple sentence structure of the statement. The use of “hope” shows that Winston’s desires hinge upon the proles, thereby illustrating the extent of his nonconformity; he is willing to place the burden of his own humanity upon the undereducated masses of society, because they are not restricted by the party’s orthodoxy, as opposed to viewing them as mindless cattle. Similarly, the simple sentence structure of the leading quote displays the certainty of

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Julia reveals how she slept with several other Party members thrills Winston because it shows how many others are corrupt, and by Winston doing the same he is pulling a political act against the Party. Winston expresses love for Julia because she is the only other person he can be sure of who hates the Party. “The more men you’ve had, the more I love you”(125). Winston reveals since he now knows Julia has had other partners he feels drawn to her because she is like him.

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Winston, discouraged by the oppression, sees hope of a better world through the actions of the Brotherhood. A small encouragement of common hope allows Winston to down his guard and reveals his rebellious leanings to O’Brien. However, unlike hope in The Hunger Games which unified people, hope in 1984 allowed for further control and persecution.

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The heroic efforts by Winston and Julia were completely thwarted. Winston had finally shown signs that he could be a hero. But they were ruined by O’Brien. Julia and Winston are forced to separate and then they are both subject to torture. The downfall of Winston begins at this point, any heroic signs that had begun to sprout out of Winston were utterly destroyed.

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“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull” (Orwell, 25). This depiction of absolute oppression by George Orwell in his novel 1984 is his idea of the future in a totalitarian dystopian world where there is no freedom, fairness and everyone is completely brainwashed. Similarly, the government in Terry Gilliams movie Brazil control and monitor their citizens, oppressing them to the point they are afraid to have a disloyal thought about their government, reminiscent of thought crime.

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George Orwell’s novel 1984 presents us two characters who are entirely different, but still complement each other entirely, the protagonist Winston and his love-interest Julia. Julia’s optimistic character highlights Winston’s fatalistic one. Winston believes he and Julia are compatible and can relate to each other because they share the same believes. They both detest Big Brother and want to rebel against the Party. While this is true, their similarities seem to end there.

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The citizens of Oceania have no other choice but to believe the lies that the Party tells them because they do not have other knowledge to disprove them. Eventually, the people’s memories will be completely replaced by whatever the Party says and they will not be able to think freely. Since the citizens will no longer have access to times before the Party, the plan for rebellion will completely disappear. Once they are successful in controlling the past and therefore controlling their citizens, the Party will have the ultimate power it

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